Important dates
1908, April 1 | The Danish Cancer Committee counts the number of cancer patients in Denmark |
1908, April 1 | The Danish Cancer Committee and Chief Medical Officer of Iceland counts the number of cancer patients in Iceland |
1943 | Foundation of the Danish Cancer Registry. First director is Dr. Johannes Clemmesen |
1952 | Foundation of the Norwegian Cancer Registry. First director is Dr. Einar Pedersen |
1952 | Foundation of the Finnish Cancer Registry. First Director is Prof. Erkki Saxén |
1952, August 14 |
Letter from Dr. Johannes Clemmesen to Niilo Voipio, general secretary of the Cancer Society of Finland. Most important points:
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1954, January 1 |
Foundation of the Icelandic Cancer Registry. First Director is Prof. Olafur Bjarnason |
1954, May 6 |
Letter from Dr. Einar Pedersen to Prof. Erkki Saxén. Most important points:
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1954, November 16 |
Reply from Prof. Erkki Saxén to Dr. Johannes Clemmesen. Most important points:
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1955, January 11 |
Letter from Dr. Johannes Clemmesen to Prof. Erkki Saxén. Most important points:
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1958, January 1 |
Foundation of the Swedish Cancer Registry at the National Board of Health. First director is Prof. Nils Ringertz |
1961, June 1 |
Letter from Herman Höst, Landsforeningen mot Kreft (the predecessor of the Norwegian Cancer Society), inviting to a cancer registry metting at the Nordic Cancer Union symposium in October 1961 |
1962, May 29 |
Letter from Dr. Johannes Clemmesen to Prof. Erkki Saxén about a joint project of "leukaemia distribution in the Scandinavian countries" as planned in 1961 (similar to the project in progress in Connecticut) |
1963, September 16-20 |
International Symposium of End Results of Cancer Therapy, Sandefjord, Norway. Participation of the Danish, Finnish and Norwegian Cancer registries, cf. NCI Monograph No. 15, 1964 |
1962, October 23 |
Joint initiative byt he five Nordic cancer registry directors to the Nordic Cancer Union. Most important points:
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1966, May 27 |
Letter from Prof. Erkki Saxén to Dr. Jörgen Schultz-Larsen, Subeditor of Acta Pathologica et Microbiologica Scandinavica. Most important points:
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1966 |
First volume of Cancer Incidence in Five Continents. A Technical Report edited by Richard Doll, Peter Payne and John Waterhouse, published by Springer-Verlag for the International Union against Cancer. Doll, R.,Payne, P.,Waterhouse, J.A.H., eds (1966) |
1966, August 14-15 |
The first annual meeting of the Nordic cancer registries, Imatra, Finland |
1984 |
Association of the Nordic Cancer Registries founded at the 1984 annual meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, with decisions about:
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