The ENCR and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), has published a new report: the "Position paper of the Survival in ECIS Working Group". This document outlines updated… more
The ENCR working group on Multiple Primary Tumours has completed its work and proposes a new set of recommendations that are now in the consultation phase to the registries. Please consider the applicability of the proposed guidelines in your cancer registry and provide comments to the working… more
The JRC (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission) and ENCR (European Network of Cancer Registries) are collaborating to build this comparable database, providing updated statistics on the cancer burden in Europe.By contributing data, you're not just meeting a requirement; you are… more
With a kick-off in Oslo, today marks the start of CancerWatch, a new EU Joint Action that will transform how Europe collects, harmonizes, and uses cancer data. Coordinated by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and involving 92 partner organisations from 29 countries, CancerWatch will… more
We announce a call for contributions to a Special Issue in the Journal ESMO Real World Data and Digital Oncology, focusing on the advancements and challenges in the use of cancer registry data in real-world oncology research. This Special Issue seeks to highlight the innovative methods and ongoing… more
Dates: October 20-23, 2025Location: Amsterdam, The NetherlandsThe International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) is pleased to announce that abstract submissions for the SIOP 2025 Congress are now open. Researchers are invited to submit their abstracts for the event in Amsterdam and to propose… more
IDEA4RC Webinar seriesDate & Time: March 26, 2025 17:00-18:00, CET
The joint scientific meeting of the ENCR and the GRELL (Group for Cancer Epidemiology and Registration in Latin Language Countries) will take place between 27-30 May 2025 in Porto, Portugal, and will bring together cancer registry professionals, researchers, and experts from Europe and GRELL… more
Date & Time: Feb 19, 2025 - 17:00-18:00, CETSpeaker: Eugenio Gaeta (UPM) and Unai Zulaika (UDEUSTO), IT experts in IDEA4RC
The course had around 80 participants attending from 26 countries.
The presentation from the course is available… more
School offers introductory and advanced courses in medical statistics and epidemiology, and their application to clinical and etiology research and public health.
It is meant to provide researchers, physicians, and health professionals with insight into available analytical tools for planning… 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
In coordination with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, the ENCR organised the third workshop on data quality checks.
Three workshops were organised: a… 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 IACR (International Association of Cancer Registries) and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) organise a combined conference of NAACCR and IACR. The conference will take place 9–13 June 2019, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Registration is now open… 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