The first eLearning package created by the ENCR included six modules, published in the ENCR eLearning platform hosted at eCancer. As of their release in November 2021, a total of 1289 modules have been accessed across 98 countries. Below is a breakdown of each module:Coding a Cancer Case:… more
The ENCR invites expressions of interest from European cancer registries to co-organize the bi-annual ENCR Scientific Meeting in 2025, together with the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. This prestigious event brings together cancer registries across Europe, providing a platform to… more
The ENCR working group on Recurrences has completed its work and proposes a new set of recommendations that are now in the consultation phase to the registries. Download new… more
The ENCR working group on Central Nervous System (CNS) tumours has completed its work and proposes a new set of recommendations that are now in the consultation phase to the registries. more
A position is open for an epidemiologist with experience in information technology to provide scientific and technical support to the European Cancer Information System and support/ collaborate with the ENCR. The current vacancy is with the Disease Prevention Unit of the Directorate for Health and… more
The "ENCR Recommendations on Recording and reporting of urothelial tumours of the urinary tract” was recently endorsed. In a webinar the new recommendation will be explained and there will be the possibility to ask questions about the recommendation. Date and time: 19 April 2023, 10:00-12:00… more
Objectives Important information Presentation OBJECTIVES In the past months the ENCR recommendations on the coding of the incidence date and the basis of diagnosis were updated.
The International Association of Cancer Registries (IACR) launched the 2022 Virtual Scientific Conference. Save these dates: 8-10 November 2022. More information is available here.  
Objectives Important information Presentation OBJECTIVES Although most cancer cases are still pathologically confirmed novel techniques including cytogenetics and molecular diagnostics are increasingly used.
The research unit SESSTIM and its partners of the Challenges in the Estimation of Net SURvival (CENSUR) working survival Group offers an advanced course on statistical methods for excess risk analysis, at Corte, Université de Corse (France) from July 4th to 8th, 2022.
JRC and ENCR organised on 5-6 June 2019 a training on Cancer Registry Data Coding at the JRC, Ispra, Italy. The agenda is available 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
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
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.