IACR Newsflash
CI5 Volume XII online
Cancer Incidence in Five Continents (CI5) Volume XII launched in October 2023.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), in collaboration with the
International Association of Cancer Registries (IACR), has launched CI5 Volume XII which compiles cancer incidence data from 455 cancer registries, covering 588 populations in 70 countries.
The published volume and databases are now available on the CI5 website: https://ci5.iarc.who.int/. The website likewise contains utilities that enable the comparison of cancer incidence and will be of interest to anyone wishing to better understand the diverse profiles of cancer in different populations.
On YouTube: Presentation on PBCRs' role in cancer control
Dr Guillermo Tortolero-Luna
The cancer registry community sympathises with the loved ones left behind by Dr Guillermo Tortolero-Luna, former Director of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center and co-director of the Puerto Rico Central Cancer Registry.
Read IARC's message here: https://www.iarc.who.int/fr/news-events/dr-guillermo-tortolero-luna/
Dr Tortolero-Luna actively supported and worked in many international cancer registry activities, including those of the International Association of Cancer Registries (IACR) and the Global Initiative for Cancer Registry Development (GICR). He served as a keynote speaker at IACR's 2018 Scientific Conference in Arequipa, Peru, and shared the experience of the Puerto Rico Central Cancer Registry's transformation into an epidemiologic cancer Surveillance System.
Statistical methods and recent advances in statistical methods for excess risk analysis (2)
Statistical methods and recent advances in statistical methods for excess risk analysis
The course is organized at Corte, Université de Corse (France) from 1st to 05th July 2024. The Corsican Summer School on Modern Methods in Biostatistics and Epidemiology is a crucial event for learning more about statistical methods and recent advances in statistical methods for analysing excess risk. The fourth edition, organized by Professor Roch Giorgi and by the Challenges in the Estimation of Net SURvival (CENSUR) working survival Group.
For more details: http://sesstim.univ-amu.fr/hearstat-2024
The Summer School is aimed at biostatisticians, statisticians, epidemiologists; researchers and students; those working in a registry of cancer, of chronic disease or in any other field relevant to these methodologies and applications.
Publication: Primary brain and CNS tumours in adults in Belgium, 2004-2020
The Belgian Cancer Registry (BCR) is pleased to announce its new publication: “Primary brain and other central nervous system (CNS) tumours in adults in Belgium 2004-2020”. Epidemiological data on incidence, prevalence, survival, trends, and projections are presented in this report.
The report (attached) is also freely downloadable from https://kankerregister.org/media/docs/publications/rapporten/NeuroOnco_Epidemio_Fullversion.pdf and is the first nationwide publication of our Registry focusing on primary brain and other CNS tumours.
All chapters of the publication are divided by primary location of the tumour (meninges, brain, spinal cord, cranial nerves, pituitary, and pineal glands and craniopharyngeal duct) and provide results based on sex, age group, histological subtype and behaviour of the tumour. Please find a summary below.
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