A Research Topic on Data Quality and Harmonization Among European Population-Based Cancer Registries is open for manuscript submission. Deadlines have been updated: for submission of manuscripts is 31 March 2023.… more
The new data call is open for all European population-based Cancer Registries in order to update the European Cancer Information System. The deadline for data submission has been extended until 31 January 2023.More information.
The European Commission Joint Research Centre, Health in Society Unit is looking for a Public Health Data Analyst. Within its Directorate for Health, Consumers and Reference Materials, the Health in Society Unit supports EU policies in public health for promoting excellence and equality of health… more
The Fondo Elena Moroni for Oncology has announced that the contest for The Enrico Anglesio Prize 2022 Virtual is now open. In addition to the main Enrico Anglesio Prize, two satellite Prizes will be awarded: the Elvo Tempia Prize (offered by the Tempia Foundation) for the youngest best competitor… more
Following the cancer incidence and mortality estimates for 2020 produced by JRC and IARC and available at the European Cancer Information System (ECIS), the JRC and the ENCR are interested in investigating about the quantitative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the cancer cases recorded in 2020… more
The course is organised by the Cluj Regional Cancer Registry with the support from the EC Joint Research Centre and the ENCR Steering Committee. It will provide basic knowledge on methods for data collection, coding, processing and analysis of data, with a section dedicated to childhood cancer… more
The online course was organised as a collaboration between the EC Joint Research Centre and the ENCR Steering Committee.
The International Association of Cancer Registries (IACR) launched the 2021 Virtual Scientific Conference. Save these dates: 12-14 October 2021. More information is available here
Given the current uncertainty regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, all the ENCR events during 2021 will be organised as virtual events. Several trainings will be delivered during the first half of the year while the Scientific Conference will be organised during the second half of the year. More… 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
Training of registry staff helps to increase the quality and comparability of cancer registry data - one of the aims of the ENCR. In order to maintain a standard course content, a core curriculum has been established, based on a collection of previously-used teaching materials. In addition,… more
JRC and ENCR organised on 3-4 May 2017 a training event 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. The course was… more
A Training Workshop on Quality of Cancer Registry Data took place on 5 October 2016, as a side event to the Scientific Meeting and General Assembly. About 50 participants attended the workshop which covered the process of data quality evaluation, methods for assessing the completeness of data,… more