EUROCARE

Project Title: EUROCARE-6: European Cancer Registry Based Study on Survival and Care of Cancer Patients (sixth round)
Project Summary: EUROCARE is a collaborative research programme on population-based cancer survival in Europe; currently it is at the sixth edition
 
Main Topic
EUROCARE monitors between country variations and time trends in the survival of cancer patients in Europe.
 
Objective

• To assess the survival of cancer patients (adults and pediatric ages) ,using also information on tumour characteristics that potentially influence treatments and outcome (morphology and sub-site localization and stage at diagnosis)
• To study both long-term survival and temporal trends in survival by updating information on life status ascertainment for all cancer patients recorded by cancer registries
• To estimate the prevalence of cancer and to study the treatment pathways of cancer patients
• To estimate incidence, survival and prevalence of rare cancers

 
Type of study
Population-based study on cancer registry data
 
Expected results
The main output from EUROCARE-6 will be the publication of survival and prevalence estimates for cancer patients diagnosed and followed up to 31th December 2013. The use of the EUROCARE-6 standardised dataset for specific studies will be promoted.
 
Responsible of the project: Roberta De Angelis (roberta.deangelis@iss.it)
Department/Center: Dipartimento di Oncologia e Medicina Molecolare
Project website: http://www.eurocare.it/