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
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.
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.
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 Excellence funded by the European Commission in FP7.… more
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-comparative studies on specific cancer types which in turn… 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