To accelerate cancer prevention in Europe: Challenges for cancer registries

The availability of population-based cancer registry (CR) data is paramount in the development of modern oncology. Major contributions consisted in accurately measuring cancer burden (incidence, survival and prevalence, beside mortality), identifying and quantifying risk factors (case control and cohort studies that, in the last two decades, included gene variant assessment) and evaluating outcomes of treatments and preventive interventions, including mass screening. Cancer registration coverage of European populations progressed slowly since 1940  and is now almost 50%.
Source: European Journal of Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Tags: Review Source Type: research