A position is open for an epidemiologist with experience in information technology to provide scientific and technical support to the European Cancer Information System and support/ collaborate with the ENCR. The current vacancy is with the Disease Prevention Unit of the Directorate for Health and… more
The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission is hiring:
Two Project Officers in Geel (Belgium) that want to contribute to equitable cancer screening and care in the EU.
Deadline to apply: 11 March. More info + application:
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This year, in 2024, the European Commission is launching a so-call Direct Grant to Member State Authorities (DG) with special focus on cancer registration and the European Cancer Information System (ECIS). Under the EU4Health programme, the Commission is reserving 13 million euros to co-finance a… more
A new update of the Quality Check Software Kit is available for download.
Version 2.1.2 of the JRC-ENCR Quality Check Software, includes software upgrades and the revision of the data quality checklist, based on:
JRC Technical report 2023: A… more
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In the past months the ENCR recommendations on the coding of the incidence date and the basis of diagnosis were updated.
The International Association of Cancer Registries (IACR) launched the 2022 Virtual Scientific Conference.
Save these dates: 8-10 November 2022.
More information is available here.
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Although most cancer cases are still pathologically confirmed novel techniques including cytogenetics and molecular diagnostics are increasingly used.
The research unit SESSTIM and its partners of the Challenges in the Estimation of Net SURvival (CENSUR) working survival Group offers an advanced course on statistical methods for excess risk analysis, at Corte, Université de Corse (France) from July 4th to 8th, 2022.
Last November 30th the Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation hosted the online symposium of the Netherlands Cancer Registry. The symposium focused on how to improve cancer care and prevention with insights from cancer registries. Cancer registries are the fuel for Europe’s… more
The course Statistical methods and recent advances in statistical methods for excess risk analysis will be held at Corte, Université de Corse (France) from 8-12 July 2019.
This course is devoted to biostatisticians, statisticians, epidemiologists, researchers and students working in a registry of… more
The aim of this course was to support the analysis of cancer registry data by describing the appropriate statistical methods to generate informative statistics on cancer incidence and survival. The course provided a package with material and code in Stata/SAS to understand and calculate basic… more
The training on data coding, was organised jointly by the ENCR Steering Committee and the European Commission Joint Research Centre. The aim was to improve comparability and harmonisation, particularly on coding topography/morphology and stage.… more
JRC and ENCR organised on 3-4 May 2017 a training on Cancer Data Collection and Comparability with one day devoted to issues related to data collection, and the second day to quality aspects of data analysis. A specific session on childhood cancer registration was included.
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22-23 January 2014, Ispra (Italy)
JRC hosted the EPAAC WP9 Satellite Meeting "State of Art of Methods for the Analysis of Population-Based Cancer Data".
Statistical methods for descriptive analysis of population-based cancer data have considerably progressed, also due to the increasing… more
The JRC and the ENCR organised the 2016 ENCR Scientific Meeting and General Assembly, from 5-7 October in Baveno, Italy. The purpose of this bienial meeting was for European cancer registries to share research findings, discuss cancer registration issues, exchange ideas and best practices,… more
31 August- 2 September 2016, London, UK
This conference is co-organised by the Cancer Survival Group and the Centre for Statistical Methodology and will focus on three themes of time-to event analyses, all of which concentrate on population based data and translational epidemiology:
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1-4 November 2015, Liverpool (UK)
The NCRI Cancer Conference will highlight the latest basic, translational and clinical cancer research. More information on the conference website.