2018 - ENCR Scientific Meeting, Copenhagen, 26-28 Sep

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The ENCR Scientific Meeting and General Assembly is a bi-annual event bringing together cancer registries in Europe. Participants get to share research findings, discuss cancer registration issues, exchange ideas and best practices, network, present epidemiological work based on cancer registry data and finally meet their representatives, the ENCR Steering Committee.
The 2018 Scientific Meeting was organised under the overarching topic "Data linkage and Cancer Registries".
The organisation of the event was co-chaired by the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Danish Cancer Society, with support from the ENCR Steering Committee.

CONFERENCE BOOKLET

Read more about the Conference programme and presentations.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Publication is conditional on the explicit consent by the authors.

Session 1 - Data linkage methods and cancer registries

Using linked primary care data to investigate patients presenting with non-specific but concerning symptoms Clare Pearson
The impact of individual, household and neighbourhood income on lung and colon cancer survival in Belgium Michael Rosskamp
Linking the Netherlands Cancer Registry to the Dutch Pathology Registry Annette Bruggink
Linkages between cancer registries and administrative data to study late effects in cancer survivors Alice Bernasconi
Distributedlearning.ai: towards a distributed learning network for cancer registries Gijs Geleijnse
Application of data linkage methods and procedures at the National Cancer Registry of Ukraine Anton Ryzhov
  

Keynote lecture

Record Linkage Methods: opportunities and challenges
Les Mery, IARC
  

Session 2 - Estimation and dissemination of cancer burden in Europe– Part 1

Cancer of Unknown Primary (CUP): epidemiology in Germany compared to other European countries and the United States Sylke Ruth Zeissig
Estimating fractions of cancers attributable to socioeconomic inequalities in Slovenia Vesna Zadnik
Hairy cell leukaemia: incidence, prevalence and survival in Europe. Findings from RARECAREnet Charlene M. McShane
Incidence trends of hematological malignancies in Belgium 2004-15: impact of the residence on chronic myeloid disorders Frédéric Calay
2017 projections of cancer incidence in Granada, Southeast Spain Daniel Redondo-Sánchez
Childhood cancer incidence in Estonia: time trends since the 1970s Keiu Paapsi
  

Keynote lecture

Occupational cancer and use of Cancer Registries
Eero Pukkala, Finish Cancer Registry
  

Session 3 - Estimation and dissemination of cancer burden in Europe– Part 2

Prediction of cancer prevalence in Austria up to the year 2030 Monika Hackl
Are melanoma fatal cases decreasing in Europe? Roberto Zanetti
Identifying and counting people living with treatable but not curable cancer in the England cancer registry Rachel White
Cancer in the oldest-old–time trends and future burden, a Danish nationwide study Klaus Kaae Andersen
Life expectancy of Italian cancer patients Laura Botta
Improvement in cancer survival in the Nordic countries 2001-2015 Gerda Engholm
  

Session 4 - Clinical databases and population based cancer registries – Part 1

Pattern of comorbidities among colorectal cancer patients and impact on treatment and short-term survival Miguel Ángel Luque-Fernández
Risk of developing gynecological cancer in Germany corrected for women no longer at risk after hysterectomy Klaus Kraywinkel
The use of information on stage and treatment from cancer registries for the evaluation of treatment patterns Francesco Giusti
Diversity of first-line palliative systemic treatments for esophagogastric cancer patients with synchronous metastases Rob Verhoeven
Comparison of quality indicators concerning breast cancer care on a national and hospital level Jan Nygård
Geographic variability in adherence to clinical practice guidelines for skin malignant melanoma in Spain Marcela Guevara
  

Keynote lecture

Population based cancer registration and clinical databases in cancer epidemiology and health services research
Henrik Møller, Danish Clinical Registries
  

Session 5 - Clinical databases and population based cancer registries – Part 2

Endocrine therapy after breast cancer diagnosis: a proof of concept study using the primary care prescription database Gabrielle Emanuel
Use of cancer registry data to estimate the cancer risk of recipients of liver transplants Diego Serraino
Comparison of the Danish Cancer Register and the Danish Renal Cancer Database Bolette Danckert
Emergency admissions for cancer patients in last year of life in Northern Ireland (NI) Victoria Cairnduff
Metadata in the Cancer Registry of Norway –performing FAIR with ELVIS Siri Larønningen
Regional differences and trends in mastectomy rates in relation to socioeconomic disparities and screening patterns Christian Herrmann
  

Keynote lecture

The Diet, Cancer and Health study – a prospective cohort study
Anne Tjønneland, Danish Cancer Society Research Centre
  

Session 6a - Biobanks and cancer registries

The use of biomarkers in treatment patterns and survival outcomes of metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer Rodrigo Murteira
Cancers in families with early onset probands Janne Pitkäniemi
PALGA Portal, the Dutch National Cancer Tissue Portal; a nationwide app for requesting tumor pathology data and tissues Annette Bruggink

Session 6b - Data quality, control, and standards for cancer registries – Part 1

Can we improve and make more useful the urothelial tumours registration? First results of a GRELL collaborative study Jaume Galceran
Variations in surgical oncology –Improvement through mapping Kasper Wennervaldt
The challenges, methods and benefits of implementing of ISO27001: 2013 in the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry Ronan Campbell
  

Session 7 - Data quality, control, and standards for cancer registries – Part 2

The stage for childhood cancers: the JARC pilot study Gemma Gatta
Completeness of childhood cancer data in the Finnish Cancer Registry Nea Malila
Identification of recurrences in the new German cancer registration by example of gynaecological tumours in Hamburg Alice Nennecke
Comparison of coding diagnosis, localisation and histology via ICD-10 and ICD-O-3 between coders and a gold standard Sylke Ruth Zeissig
Indicators of data qualiy at the Cancer Registry Zurich and Zug in Switzerland Miriam Wanner
Automatic extraction of Gleason combined score, primary and secondary grades from written pathology reports Kris Henau

 

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

 

Data linkage methods and cancer registries

Low education level and cancer: incidence and mortality risk pattern.
Ieva Vincerzevskiene, Domantas Jasilionis, Giedre Smailyte
Evaluation of a national lung cancer awareness campaign in Wales.
Ciarán Slyne, Lucy Ironmonger, Kate Brain, Grace McCutchan, Jodie Moffat, Katie Connor, Stephanie Smits, Rebecca Thomas, Dyfed Huws
The Castile and Leon Childhood Cancer Registry (CLCCR). Using several electronic sources for quality standards.
Pilar Gutiérrez, Rufino Álamo Sanz, María García López, Hermenegildo González García, Juan Pablo Martínez Badas, Ana Vegas Álvarez, Raquel Portugal Rodríguez, Maica Mendoza Sánchez, Felipe Rubio Rodríguez, Ana Lucía Martinez Jimenez, et al.
Using English Cancer Registry linked data to assess diagnostic pathway variation for colorectal and lung cancers.
Clare Pearson, Jess Fraser, Jon Shelton
  

Estimation and dissemination of cancer burden in Europe

Survival in the Central region of Portugal in some selected topographies: 2003-2010.
Joana Bastos, Branca Carrito
Increasing kidney cancer incidence and survival in Estonia: role of gender, age and stage.
Kaire Innos, Teesi Sepp, Aleksei Baburin, Andres Kotsar, Katrin Lang, Peeter Padrik, Tiiu Aareleid
Are there differences in treatment and survival between men and women with colorectal cancer?
Manuela Limam, Katarina L. Matthes, Giulia Pestoni, Leonhard Held, Dimitri Korol, Silvia Dehler, Sabine Rohrmann
Pilot study on patient experiences in Germany using an adaptation of the Danish National Cancer Patient Questionnaire.
Christiane Rudolph, Gitte Stentebjerg Petersen, Hans Storm, Ron Pritzkuleit, Alexander Katalinic
Myeloproliferative neoplasms– incidence, prevalence and survival across Europe.
Laura Cowan, Anna T. Gavin, Eileen Morgan, Charlene M. McShane, Lesley A Anderson, on behalf of RARECAREnet working group
Epidemiology of cervical dysplasia and carcinoma after the onset of an HPV vaccination programme in Navarra (Spain).
Guillermo Ezpeleta, Marcela Guevara, Rosa Guarch, María Aldareguía, M. Isabel Eciolaza, Marta Ibarra, Rosana Burgui, Yugo Floristán, Conchi Moreno-Iribas, Eva Ardanaz
Regional differences in 5-year net survivals of selected cancers in Poland.
Anna Zielinska, Aleksandra Gliniewicz, Dorota Dudek-Godeau, Katarzyna Kwiatkowska, Ryszard Me˛yk, Magdalena Bielska-Lasota
Is high socioeconomic status associated with earlier detection of breast cancer in young women in Norway?
Cassia B. Trewin, Kirsti V. Hjerkind, Anna L.V. Johansson, Bjørn Heine Strand, Giske Ursin
Reliable comparisons of basis of diagnosis among registries needs age standardisation: harmonising actions necessary.
Francesco Giusti, Emanuele Crocetti, Carmen Martos, Giorgia Randi, Raquel N. Carvalho, Nadya Dimitrova, Luciana Neamtiu, Tadek Dyba, Manola Bettio
Impact of comorbidities at diagnosis on prostate cancer treatment and survival.
Katarina L Matthes, Manuela Limam, Giulia Pestoni, Leonhard Held, Dimitri Korol, Sabine Rohrmann
Just how rare are rare lymphoid malignancies in Europe? Findings from RARECAREnet.
Charlene M. McShane, Lesley A. Anderson, on behalf of RARECAREnet working group
Mortality trends of breast and cervical cancers in Poland during the first decade of the national population screenings.
Dorota Dudek-Godeau, Ryszard Me˛ z˙ yk, Katarzyna Kwiatkowska, Aleksandra Gliniewicz, Anna Zielin´ska, Magdalena Bielska-Lasota
European countries with partial cancer registration coverage: how to estimate national incidence?
Giorgia Randi, Tadek Dyba, Carmen Martos, Francesco Giusti, Emanuele Crocetti, Luciana Neamtiu, Nadya Dimitrova, Raquel N. Carvalho, Nicholas Nicholson, Manola Bettio
The software COMPREV 3.0: a tool to quantify cancer burden by means of Complete Prevalence estimation.
Anna Gigli, Silvia Francisci
  

Clinical databases and population based cancer registries

Cancer clinical research should join forces with registries on long-term outcome research – a showcase of EORTC-IKNL
Lifang Liu, Anouk Neven, Maja V. Maraldo, Francesco Giusti, Catherine Fortpied, Laurence Collette, Otto Visser
High resolution registry of melanoma and care pathways monitoring in the Veneto Region, Italy.
Stefano Guzzinati, Zorzi Manuel, Rossi Carlo Riccardo, Buja Alessandra, Italiano Irene, Fiore Anna Rita, Dal Cin Antonella, Baracco Maddalena, Martin Giancarla, Rugge Massimo
Supporting local NHS decision-making in Wales with profiles of cancer incidence and prevalence at Cluster Network level.
Tamsin Long, Claire Wright, Dyfed Huws, Ceri White, Rebecca Thomas, Kelly Shiell-Davis, Adele Oddy, David Egan
Development of an algorithm using administrative data to estimate recurrence of ovarian cancer in Belgium.
Hava Izci, Harlinde De Schutter, Jérôme Xicluna, An Poppe, Hans Wildiers, Ignace Vergote, Patrick Neven
Myeloproliferative neoplasms– incidence, prevalence and survival across Europe.
Laura Cowan, Anna T. Gavin, Eileen Morgan, Charlene M. McShane, Lesley A Anderson, on behalf of RARECAREnet working group
Investigating characteristics of women with Breast Cancer Recurrence in Northern Ireland (NI).
Victoria Cairnduff, Laura Dwyer, David Donnelly, Colm Burns, Anna Gavin
Characteristics of pancreatic cancer and survival by stage: a population-based study from the Girona cancer registry.
Maria Carmen Carmona-Garcia, Adelaida García-Velasco, Raquel Liñán, Noa Calavia Sió, Anna Fàbrega Ribas, Marta Solans, M. Loreto Vilardell, Rafael Marcos-Gragera
Quality indicators for lung cancer care in canton Ticino (southern Switzerland), 2015-2016.
Laura Ortelli, Alessandra Spitale, Paola Mazzola, Simona Peverelli, Andrea Bordoni
Quality evaluation of breast cancer screening canton Ticino in southern Switzerland through cancer registry data.
Alessandra Spitale, Laura Ortelli, Nadia Riso, Agnese Bonetti, Simona Peverelli, Andrea Bordoni
Second malignant neoplasms after a childhood cancer in the Comunitat Valenciana region, Spain.
Marisa Vicente-Raneda, Nieves Fuster-Camarena, Consol Sabater-Gregori, Paloma Botella-Rocamora, Emilia Banqueri-Guerrero, Jordi Pérez-Panadés, Fernando Almela-Vich, Javier Peñalver-Herrero, Carmen Alberich-Martí
Odisseia, an oncology disease information system – integrating information from different sources.
Luis Antunes, Francisco Rocha Gonçalves, Maria José Bento
Systemic treatment in non metastatic breast cancer in Belgium: does age influence intercenter heterogeneity?
Lien van Walle, Nancy Van Damme, Harlinde De Schutter, François Duhoux, Evandro de Azambuja, Hans Wildiers, Peter Vuylsteke, Annelore Barbeaux, Didier Verhoeven, Liesbet Van Eycken
Mortality among non-operated colon cancer patients in Denmark.
Jane Christensen, Peter Ingeholm, Mette Yilmaz, Ole Andersen, Thea H Degett, Søren Rafaelsen, Lene H Iversen
Recent trends in incidence of non-melanoma skin cancers pathology reports in Northern Ireland.
Eileen Morgan, Angela Alani, Collette McCourt, Deirdre Fitzpatrick, Anna Gavin, Olivia Dolan
Higher values of five-year survival as an advantage resulting from starting treatment in the oncological center.
Kamila Kepska, Jerzy Blaszczyk, Adam Maciejczyk
Population-based incidence of lymphoid neoplasms according to WHO 2008 classification: results from the Girona province
Rafael Marcos-Gragera, Marta Solans, Anna Fàbrega, David Morea, Carme Auñon, Josep María Roncero, Antonio Blanco, Nichollas Kelleher, Joan Buch, Loreto Vilardell
Involvement of European cancer registries in measuring Patient Reported Outcome Measures in colorectal cancer.
Luciana Neamtiu, Silvia Deandrea, Liisa Pylkkanen
Quality indicators for lung cancer care in canton Ticino (southern Switzerland), 2015-2016.
Ylva Maria Gjelsvik, Tor Åge Myklebust, Sophie Dorothea Fosså, Erik Skaaheim Haug, Rune Kvåle, Marjolein Memelink Iversen, Jan Franz Nygård, Kristin Hoel Brenden, Giske Ursin, Tom Børge Johannesen
Model to evaluate the impact of ERNs by linking PBCRs and CDBs. The JARC study.
Adela Cañete, Rafael Peris-Bonet, Gemma Gatta, Ricardo Cappocacia, Annalisa Trama, Kathy Pritchard Jones, Linkage Study Working Group
  

Biobanks and cancer registries

The role of viral agents in the progression from Barrett’s oesophagus to oesophageal adenocarcinoma.
Andrew Kunzmann, Massimo Tommasino, Tarik Gheit, Robbie Wilson, Jackie Jamison, Jaqueline James, Brian Johnston, Damian McManus, Lesley Anderson
The NICRs experience of the TNM8 Oropharyngeal p16+ Staging System.
Sinead Lardner, Lesley Anderson, Anna Gavin, Jacqueline Napier, Jackie Kelly, Marsha Magee, Paula Darragh
  

Data quality, control, and standards for cancer registries

Automatic extraction of Gleason combined score, primary and secondary grades from written pathology reports.
Kris Henau, Antoine Pironet, Nancy Van Damme, Liesbet Van Eycken
United Kingdom and Ireland Association of Cancer Registries (UKIACR) performance indicators 2018 report.
Ceri White, UKIACR Analysis Group, UKIACR Executive Committee
Quality checks after automated cancer coding.
Minna Merikivi, Niko Lavonen, Nea Malila
Role of cancer registry workers in improving the documentation of cancer staging data.
Maciej Trojanowski, Łukasz Taraszkiewicz, Barbara Wieckowska, Anna Kubiak, Piotr Radomyski, Urszula Wojciechowska
The lack of clinical notifications in Finnish Cancer Registry.
Henna Degerlund, Tiina Hakanen, Nea Malila
DCN, DCI and DCO in the Cancer Registry of Norway.
Marianne Brenn Jerm, Tom Børge Johannesen, Siri Larønningen, Tor Åge Myklebust, Bjørn Møller
High Resolution Studies– an opportunity to increase data quality in the Greater Poland Cancer Registry.
Anna Kubiak, Maciej Trojanowski, Łukasz Taraszkiewicz, Piotr Radomyski, Michał Oko, Witold Kycler
The impact of breast cancer screening on cancer staging at diagnosis in the Greater Poland region.
Łukasz Taraszkiewicz, Agnieszka Dyzmann-Sroka, Maciej Trojanowski, Barbara Wie˛ ckowska, Piotr Radomyski, Anna Kubiak, Witold Kycler
The impact of administrative reforms on quality of cancer registration: an example of Latvian Cancer Registry.
Una Kojalo, Santa Pildava, Ieva Strele
Improving registration of rare cancers: the proposal of the Joint Action on Rare Cancers (JARC).
Annalisa Trama, Gemma Gatta, Liesbet Van Eycken, Otto Visser, María Dolores Chirlaque-López, Carmen Navarro-Sánchez, Rafael Marcos-Gragera, Paul Walsh, Carmen López-Briones, Riccardo Capocaccia
Evolution and differences in coding basis of diagnosis among European Cancer Registries.
Francesco Giusti, Carmen Martos, Emanuele Crocetti, Giorgia Randi, Raquel N. Carvalho, Nadya Dimitrova, Luciana Neamtiu, Tadek Dyba, Manola Bettio
Digital Archiving for improving data quality management in Cancer Registries.
Begoña Sanchez-Royo, David P. Anderson, Jaime Kaminski, Janet Anderson
  

POSTER AWARDS

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ENCR chairs with the poster award winners

 

1st Place

Quality indicators for lung cancer care in canton Ticino (southern Switzerland), 2015-2016.
Laura Ortelli, Alessandra Spitale, Paola Mazzola, Simona Peverelli, Andrea Bordoni

2nd Place

Development of an algorithm to estimate recurrence of ovarian cancer in Belgium using administrative data.
Hava Izci, Harlinde De Schutter, Hans Wildiers, Jérôme Xicluna, Jessica Vandeven, Julie Verbeeck, Lynn Jongen, An Poppe, Adriaan Vanderstichele, Ignace Vergote, Patrick Neven

3rd Place

Systemic treatment in non-metastatic breast cancer in Belgium: does age influence intercenter heterogeneity?
Lien van Walle, Nancy Van Damme, Harlinde De Schutter, François Duhoux, Evandro de Azambuja, Hans Wildiers, Peter Vuylsteke, Annelore Barbeaux, Didier Verhoeven, Liesbet Van Eycken