Population-based overall survival rates for childhood cancer vary across geographical regions within and outside Europe; this variation could be at least partly explained by differences in tumour stage at diagnosis. The International Benchmarking of Childhood Cancer Survival by Stage, also called… more
The stage at diagnosis is one of the most important predictors for cancer survival. TNM stage is constructed from T (tumor size), N (nodal spread), and M (distant metastasis) components. In many notifications to cancer registries, TNM information is incomplete with unknown N and/or M. We aimed to… more
A new publication was published in the journal Frontiers in Oncology by the members of the ENCR working group on cancer treatment and harmonisation. Publication available for download.
The ENCR Steering Committee endorsed the new recommendation on Standard dataset for European Cancer Registries, concluding the work initiated by the Working group. Translation is available in Spanish. More information.
A new publication was published in the journal Frontiers in Oncology by the members of the ENCR working group on recording and reporting urothelial tumours of the urinary tract. Publication available for… 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.
In coordination with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, the ENCR organised the third workshop on data quality checks.
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