ENCR News Archive

Programme of ENCR General Meeting ENCR GENERAL MEETING

September 21st, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia
held in conjonction with the 29th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Cancer Registries.

XXXIIe Reunion du Groupe pour l'Epidemiologíe et l'Enregistrement du Cancer dans les Pays de Langues Latines

Montreal 16-19 mai 2007

More details available on the GRELL web site or on the web site of the meeting



ENCR Course ADVANCED COURSE: AUTOMATED CANCER REGISTRATION

The next course on Automated Cancer Registration will take place in Birmingham from 26 to 27 June 2006.

The course is intended for registries which have recently become automated, or which have firm plans in place to become automated.

The programme and the form are available here    



ENCR Newsflash November 2005 ENCR NEWSFLASH: NOVEMBER 2005

We are pleased to publish the second 2005 issue of the Newsflash. This mainly contains information on the funding situation and the recent Steering Committee meeting.

English version

ENCR Steering Committee minutes 30th STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING

The 30th steering committee meeting was held at IARC on the 19-20 September 2005.
The minutes of the steering committee are available
here    


ENCR Steering Committee Terms ENCR STEERING COMMITTEE

Terms of reference of the steering committee (October 2005) are available here    


ENCR Steering Committee Elections ENCR STEERING COMMITTEE ELECTIONS

The elections for the ENCR Steering Committee were closed on 30 April 2005.

The composition of the new Committee is given here    


ENCR GENERAL MEETING AND WORKSHOPS

The ENCR General Meeting and Workshops was held on 26-27 October 2004 at the European Commission in Luxembourg. It consisted of a short general meeting and four workshops on the following topics: evaluation of clinical care, childhood cancer, automated cancer registration and molecular pathology.

Report available here    


ENCR WORKING GROUP

An ENCR Working Group was established in 2003 to prepare a recommended standard dataset for cancer registries.


More information here.

MULTIPLE PRIMARIES RULES 2004 CODING MULTIPLE PRIMARIES, revised rules (ICD-O-3)

A Working Group consisting of representatives of IARC, IACR and ENCR has revised the previous IARC/IACR recommendations for coding multiple primaries.

Available here.

STATA (Version 8.0) MACROS FOR SHORT-TERM PREDICTIONS (UPGRADE)

Due to a major bug in the file PRED_STATA8.zip posted on the website in December 2003,
please replace with the corrected version now downloadable.


 The suite of Stata (Version 8.0) macros for short-term predictions by Tadek Dyba and Timo Hakulinen of the Finnish Cancer registry are available online and can be downloaded at http://www.encr.com.fr/stata-macros.htm as a zipped file. Once unzipped, please read the Word (or pdf) document pred_stata to receive some basic instructions as to how to use the programs.

ENCR Cancer Fact Sheets

In the series of "ENCR Cancer Fact Sheets", four issues have been published so far:
"Lung cancer in Europe",
"Breast cancer in Europe",
"Bladder cancer in Europe"
"Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma in Europe".

ENCR Publications
Standards and Guidelines for Cancer Registration in Europe

This is a handbook for cancer registries bringing together all recommendations and guidelines that have been prepared so far by the ENCR Working Groups, as well as recommendations prepared by the International Association of Cancer Registries (IACR) and adapted by the Network.

More information available here

ENCR Publications
Evaluation of Clinical Care by Cancer Registries
This report introduces the framework, subject matter, methods, study designs and problems in the assessment of quality of clinical care.

More information available here

The ENCR Automated Cancer Registration website is now open. Within this site you will find information on the principles of automated registration and the benefits that are being realised, definitions, an interactive test site, related publications, etc.


EUCAN Database - Version 5.0
EUCAN - Cancer Incidence, Mortality and Prevalence in the European Union. (1998 estimates)

Only for EUCAN CD-ROM Owners!



EUROCIM version 4.0
A new version of the EUROCIM software, with a time trends module and an updated data set was developed and distributed in July 2001. Data on about 15 million cancer cases have been provided by over 100 cancer registries in Europe. EUROCIM is distributed to registries contributing data.

More information here


Download the latest updates of the INCV23b and MORTAV23 databases available here

EJC
Subscription to the European Journal of Cancer
A reduced annual subscription rate of £ 80 is being offered to ENCR members. Interested registries should subscribe individually directly to the European Journal of Cancer at the address below:

Elsevier Science; Regional Sales Office; Customer Support Department; P.O. Box 211; 1000 AE Amsterdam; The Netherlands; Tel: +31 20 485 3757; Fax: +31 20 485 3432; E-mail: nlinfo-f@elsevier.nl