The Joint Cancer Registry (JCR) was founded in the 1950s and dissolved on 31 December 2022. It was a political decision to end the joint epidemiological registration and continue the cancer registration seperately in the five federal States former belonging to the JCR: Berlin/Brandenburg,… more
The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has recently published a factsheet titled "Impact of Population Ageing on the Burden of Cancer up to 2040 IN EU/EFTA Countries.This factsheet provides an insightful analysis of the expected impact of population ageing on cancer incidence and… more
A new ENCR working group is being established to address the challenges in Non Melanoma Skin Cancer. Experts wishing to participate are invited to contact the ENCR Secretariat expressing their… more
Two calls for funding are open under Horizon Europe Programme that might be of interest for Cancer Registries or Cancer Institutes/centers and similar cancer bodies. Those calls will support the Cancer Mission (… more
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.
Availability of treatment data and their level of detail vary substantially between Population Based Cancer Registries. The aim of the ENCR workshop was to present and discuss the recommendations for the collection and recording of treatment variables, compiled by the European Working Group on… more
This workshop described a range of options for presenting survival-based metrics from population-based data. It included metrics that are useful for reporting the impact of cancer on patient survival and approaches for making fair comparison across population groups (including international… more
This 14th annual short course will take place at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). The faculty will include internationally renowned experts in the field of cancer survival analysis and methods, and 20 researchers in the Cancer Survival Group. The main topics include… 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
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 Group for Cancer Epidemiology and Registration in Latin Language Countries - GRELL, established in 1976, promotes epidemiological cancer research, mainly through the registration of cases in geographically defined populations.
GRELL is organising the 2019 edition of its Ascension annual meeting… 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:
Recent… 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.