Eurocare

EUROCARE (EUROpean CAncer REgistry-based study on survival and CARE of cancer patients) is a cancer epidemiology research project on survival of European cancer patients. The project is based on a collaboration established in 1989 between the Istituto Nazionale Tumori (Milan, Italy), the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Rome, Italy) and a large number of population-based cancer registries, from European countries, with incidence and survival data available. The project analyses include cancer patients, diagnosed from the year 1978.

The main aim of EUROCARE is to follow up and analyze survival of cancer patients in Europe and to detect timely substantial changes across regions and over time. This allows analyzing whether the substantial differences in survival between countries from the previous surveys are still present.

Number of participating registries is steadily growing which enables the study to provide regular and increasingly comprehensive publications on cancer patient survival in Europe. The fifth edition of EUROCARE includes data on more than 10 millions of cancer diagnoses analysed for almost 50 cancer entities, which were provided by 107 population based cancer registries in 29 European countries. Cancer registry of Republic Slovenia provided data from second edition of EUROCARE.

EUROCARE has collected and analyzed survival data on patients diagnosed from 1978 to 2007 in five editions, the sixth editions is in progress:

- 1978 to 1984 (EUROCARE-1), - 1978 to 1989 (EUROCARE-2), - 1983 to 1994 (EUROCARE-3) - prepare your own data, - 1988 to 2002 (EUROCARE-4) - prepare your own data, - 1999 to 2007 (EUROCARE-5) - prepare your own data.

 

More information about the project is available on EUROCARE homepage and publications based on EUROCARE analyses. All interested in survival we want to remind to be careful with the correct interpretation of Slovenian data, especially when compared to other countries. More information about the epidemiological terms is available in Glossary.