NewsActivity: Cancer registry

Almost half of all deaths globally are now recorded with a cause, new data from World Health Organization show, highlighting improvements made on collecting data and statistics (...)

Asbestos is not a problem of the past. There are more than 1600 new cases of mesothelioma occurring every year in Italy, and it is estimated that asbestos cancers are at least as numerous. An open-to-public conference is pointing to an ongoing topic (...)

Adriano Giacomin, founder and director of the Cancer registry of the province of Biella, has died. We are deeply saddened by the loss of a colleague selfless and competent, and a friend always ready to instill confidence and enthusiasm (...)

New data on incidence, mortality, survival and prevalence of Piedmont Cancer Registry relating to both the City of Turin and the Metropolitan Area are available online (...)

Now in its sixth annual edition, the report published by the Italian Association of Medical Oncology and the Italian Cancer Registries provides epidemiological measures and clinical interpretations of interest both for operators and for users of Health (...)

XL Congress of the Italian Association of Epidemiology will take place in Turin 19 to 21 October (...)

Issued new regional regulations for the processing of sensitive data, a regulatory framework aimed at consolidating adequate guarantees to the citizens than the legitimate use of the most sensitive information in their lives, in the interest of the individual and the community (...)

The new European regulation on privacy aimed at harmonizing regulations and procedures, especially in terms of managing sensitive data, enters into force (...)

"Take decisions" is the title of the Annual meeting of the Association Alessandro Liberati - Italian Cochrane Network  to be held in Rome on May 31 (...)

Meeting in L'Aquila on 14 and 15 April, the IEA Spring Conference whose theme will be: epidemiology, surveillance and research to coincide with catastrophic events (...)

The 5th Report of National Mesothelioma Registry contains, in addition to epidemiological measures of incidence, latency, mean age at diagnosis and survival, even data on exposure to asbestos for malignant mesothelioma cases reported by the networks of centers Regional Operations (...)

The European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council of Ministers approved the text of the new European Data Protection Regulation, which will replace by 2018 the national legislation on protection of personal data in the research (...)

A meeting dedicated to the operators of the regional network of epidemiology designed to illustrate the progress made to date and define the lines of development for the near future with regard to the Regional Health Information System will be held in Turin, December 18 (...)

Event in Turin, on 1 December, to take stock of the regional data of the PNE 2015 (...)

The V annual edition of the report "The numbers of cancer in Italy", published by the Italian Association of Medical Oncology and the Italian Association of Cancer Registries, provides epidemiological measures and clinical interpretations of interest both for operators and for users of the National Health System (…)

The XXXIX Congress of the Italian Association of Epidemiology is scheduled in Milan October 28 to 30. Main theme this year will be the combination of diet and health (...)

Half a century ago came the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the intergovernmental agency of the World Health Organization, which, among other tasks, establishes guidelines on the classification of the relative risk for cancers of chemical and physical agents.The book published to mark the 50th IARC anniversary is now available online (...)

The Authority for the protection of the personal data launches new guidelines on electronic patient dossier, for the protection of patient data within a single frame of reference and homogeneous (...)