The European Cancer Information System (ECIS) has been updated with more recent and standardised cancer data from over 125 registries across 32 European… more
A new publication in the International Journal of Medical Informatics Advancing cancer data collection: ICD-11 implementation in European oncology and cancer registries presents the first recommendations for implementing ICD-11 in oncology.Experts emphasize that the effective adoption of this… more
The BENCHISTA project, a collaboration between cancer registries and clinicians, has published a new paper, applying the Toronto Childhood Cancer Stage Guidelines to assess geographical variation in tumour stage at diagnosis for six childhood solid tumours.International benchmarking of stage at… more
The ENCR is establishing a working group regarding the use of AI in Cancer Registries (CRs). With a broad scope, the working group will not only including the use/implementation of Machine Learning for research, but touching upon the legal framework around AI, the use of Large Language Models for… more
The ENCR Steering Committee endorsed the new recommendation on Treatment Data Recording (phase I), published on 27 January 2025, concluding the work initiated by the Working group.See Recommendation
About the Communication WorkshopCancer registries play a crucial role in collecting and analysing cancer data. Clear and effective communication is essential to convey this information to various stakeholders, including policymakers, researchers, healthcare professionals, and the public.
GRELL announces the next 48th Group for Cancer Epidemiology and Registration in Latin Language Countries Annual Meeting, on 15-17 May 2024, in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The international summer course “Statistical methods and recent advances in statistical methods for excess risk analysis” will be organized at Corte, Université de Corse (France) from 1st to 05th July 2024. For more information,  consult the event website.
The ENCR workshop took place as a side event to the ENCR-IACR Scientific Conference in Granada, Spain.  
The ENCR workshop took place as a side event to the ENCR-IACR Scientific Conference in Granada, Spain. The scope of the workshop is summarized in the Workshop Report.
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. Basic principle… more
IARC, Lyon (France), 25 to 29 November 2013 The Paediatric Oncology for Cancer Registries is a unique course, organized by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in the framework of the European Network for Cancer Research in Children and Adolescents (ENCCA), a Network of… more
Izmir (Turkey), 30 September to 4 October 2013 The aim of the training is to provide cancer registries staff with an understanding of good practices and procedures to establish/improve their registries and harmonise their process for collection of cancer data. This will facilitate inter-… more
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.