ENCR Recommendations

Marked differences in practice exist between cancer registries, for example, with respect to data sources, definitions and processing methods.
To make cancer registry data comparable, which is one of the main aims of the Network, it is important that common rules and definitions are used.

 

TitleYear of PublicationLink
Data quality checks for validation of the ECIS database2026EN (PDF)
Survival in ECIS2025EN Position paper (PDF)
Treatment Data Recording2025EN (PDF)
Recording Recurrence, Progression and Transformation Episodes2025EN (PDF)
Central Nervous System Tumours2024EN (PDF)
Standard dataset2023EN (PDF), ES (PDF), FR (PDF)
Basis of Diagnosis2022EN (PDF), ES (PDF), FR (PDF), RO (PDF), DE (PDF)
Cancer cases in migrant population2022EN (PDF), FR (PDF), ES (PDF)
Recording and Reporting of Urothelial Tumours2022EN (PDF), ES (PDF), FR (PDF), RO (PDF)
Incidence Date2022EN (PDF), ES (PDF), FR (PDF), DE (PDF), RO (PDF)
The Toronto Childhood Cancer Stage Guidelines2016Read more
Haematological cancers2014EN (PDF), Position paper (PDF)
Data protection2012EN (PDF), Position paper (PDF)
Multiple Primaries2004EN (PDF)
Bladder Tumours1995EN (PDF), FR (PDF), DE (PDF), ES (PDF)
Tumours of the Brain and Central Nervous System1998EN (PDF)
Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers2000EN (PDF)
Method of Detection in Relation to Screening2001EN (PDF)
Confidentiality in Cancer registration2002EN (PDF), FR (PDF)
Condensed TNM for Coding the Extent of Disease2002EN (PDF), FR (PDF)
Structured Registry Review EN (PDF)