ANCR 2012

15.02.2012

The ANCR Annual Meeting 2012 will be held in Oslo on 29.-30. August. The deadline for registration is 30. April. The Cancer Registry of Norway has great pleasure in inviting you to an interesting conference.

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Differences in relative survival across 19 counties in Norway

08.05.2012

The greatest differences in relative survival between counties are found among lung cancer patients where survival in 2000-2009 varies from 9-23 per cent and in prostate cancer where it varies from 71-91 per cent. These interesting results are presented in a report from the Cancer Registry of Norway titled: Cancer survival by county and health region in Norway 2000-2009.

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Hormone Replacement Treatment and mammography may explain raise in breast cancer in Norway

12.03.2012

Hormon Replacement Treatment as well as introduction of public mammography screening may explain the increased number of breast cancer cases in Norway the last two decades explains Head of Department of Research at the Cancer Registry of Norway, Steinar Tretli in a recent podcast from the British Medical Journal.

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ARCAGE a follow-up study

15.02.2012

Nearly 200 Norwegians participated in a study where risk of cancer in the mouth, throat, larynx and oesophagus were examined related to occupation, life-style and socioeconomic status, in the period from 2002 - 2005. Now the project will look at conditions linked to the individual patient’s life style, tumour type and treatment and see how this influences survival and the risk of being diagnosed with a new cancer.

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More and more get cancer, and more survive

16.02.2012

The number of men and women who get cancer is increasing dramatically. One main reason is that this disease primarily strikes the older part of the population, which is growing. On the positive side, the numbers who survive cancer are increasing. Also, those who are not cured live longer, and new treatments give better quality of life. However, there are great differences in outcome, and fortunately also some huge successes.

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Increased respiratory cancer risk among Canadian electrolysis workers

22.02.2012

The Cancer Registry of Norway has found, through examining Canadian and American reports from the period 1930-1992, an increase in cancer risk among electrolysis workers in the Canadian nickel industry. The results contrast sharply to statements from parts of the international nickel industry that maintain that no such risk is found in this group.

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NORDCAN- A Source of Nordic Cancer Statistics

10.01.2012

The Cancer Registry of Norway delivers data to NORDCAN, a collaboration project between all the Nordic cancer registries. On the NORDCAN website you can find information on cancer incidence, mortality, prevalence (number of persons alive with a cancer diagnosis) and survival for 41 of the largest groups of cancer in the Nordic countries.

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Summary: Secondary screening using HPV tests in cervical cancer screening

06.01.2012

Here is a summary of an evaluation report of HPV tests used in cervical cancer screening publised by the Cancer Registry of Norway 8th December 2011.

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