Cancer: useful links

Cancer Research UK

• The CRUK website provides extensive information on cancer prevention, detection, treatments and outcomes. It also includes statistics and information on cancer incidence, mortality, survival and risk factors by cancer type.

Macmillan Cancer Support

• Macmillan provide a range of services for people living with cancer. This includes expert cancer advice and information, volunteer services, grants and welfare benefits advice services.

European Network of Cancer Registries

• The European Network of Cancer Registries (ENCR), established within the framework of the Europe Against Cancer Programme of the European Commission, has been in operation since 1990.

International Association of Cancer Registries

• The International Association of Cancer Registries (IACR) was founded in 1966 as a professional society dedicated to fostering the aims and activities of cancer registries worldwide.

International Agency for Research on Cancer

• The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is an intergovernmental agency that is part of the World Health Organization of the United Nations. Its role is to conduct and coordinate research into the causes of cancer. It also collects and publishes surveillance data on the occurrence of cancer worldwide.

International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership

• The International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP) is an international multidisciplinary collaboration to help improve outcomes for cancer patients. 
• The Cancer Survival in High-Income Countries (SURVMARK-2) project provides data on cancer survival, incidence and mortality, and is part of the second phase of the ICBP.

CONCORD Programme

• CONCORD is the programme for worldwide surveillance of trends in cancer survival, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. It is an international scientific collaboration endorsed by 40 national and international agencies, including WHO Europe, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank. It involves 600 investigators in over 300 institutions in 70 countries and is designed to inform national and global policy on cancer control.

EUROCARE

• The EUROCARE study monitors the survival of cancer patients in Europe through centralised collection, quality checking and statistical analysis of population-based cancer registries data. 

World Cancer Research Fund International

• The World Cancer Research Fund International examines how diet, weight and physical activity affect the risk of developing and surviving cancer. It does this by commissioning and funding research from leading institutions around the world into the effects of diet, nutrition, body fatness and physical activity on cancer and cancer survival, with the aim of filling current gaps in scientific knowledge.
• The Global Cancer Update Programme analyses global research on how diet, nutrition and physical activity affect cancer risk and survival.