The European Cancer Information System (ECIS) has been updated with more recent and standardised cancer data from over 125 registries across 32 European… more
A new publication in the International Journal of Medical Informatics Advancing cancer data collection: ICD-11 implementation in European oncology and cancer registries presents the first recommendations for implementing ICD-11 in oncology.Experts emphasize that the effective adoption of this… more
The BENCHISTA project, a collaboration between cancer registries and clinicians, has published a new paper, applying the Toronto Childhood Cancer Stage Guidelines to assess geographical variation in tumour stage at diagnosis for six childhood solid tumours.International benchmarking of stage at… more
The ENCR is establishing a working group regarding the use of AI in Cancer Registries (CRs). With a broad scope, the working group will not only including the use/implementation of Machine Learning for research, but touching upon the legal framework around AI, the use of Large Language Models for… more
The ENCR Steering Committee endorsed the new recommendation on Treatment Data Recording (phase I), published on 27 January 2025, concluding the work initiated by the Working group.See Recommendation
The two half-day virtual workshop on software applications and AI tools for cancer registries will present best practices in European CR’s, project presentations and discussion.
About the Communication WorkshopCancer registries play a crucial role in collecting and analysing cancer data. Clear and effective communication is essential to convey this information to various stakeholders, including policymakers, researchers, healthcare professionals, and the public.
GRELL announces the next 48th Group for Cancer Epidemiology and Registration in Latin Language Countries Annual Meeting, on 15-17 May 2024, in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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.
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 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