Providing up-to-date cancer burden indicators across Europe, exploring geographical patterns and temporal trends of incidence, mortality, and survival data for the major cancer entities.
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Information on cancer burden originates from cancer registries:
- population-based cancer registries collect data from different sources and in a systematic way on all new diagnoses in a population
- standardisation and harmonisation of data collection and analysis allows comparability across EU countries and temporal monitoring of the cancer dynamics.
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| Knowledge service | Metadata | Cancer |cancer burdencancer incidencecancer mortalitycancer prevalencecancer registrycancer survivalnon-communicable diseasesrare cancerrare disease |
| Digital Europa Thesaurus (DET) | cancerdisease surveillancechronic illness |