1 Cancer Inequalities in London
The Registry is pleased to publish “Cancer Inequalities in London 2000-2004”. This report sets out overall trends for the incidence and mortality for 15 different cancer sites among London residents over the years 1985-2004. It also presents the incidence and mortality figures for each primary care trust and cancer network in the five years 2000-2004. A particular focus of the analyses is the influence of socioeconomic status of area of residence on incidence and mortality. Survival is also presented by socioeconomic status of area of residence and by cancer network of residence. The report identifies some areas of London with a higher incidence or mortality or a lower survival for different cancers for further investigation. The report is available at http://www.tcr.org.uk/reports/index.htm.
Cancer Inequalities in London 2000-2004
An earlier report “Cancer inequalities in the South East Region: The Burden of Cancer” was prepared in collaboration with the Oxford Cancer Intelligence Unit, the South West Public Health Observatory and the South East Public Health Observatory and published in September 2006. This report is available at http://www.tcr.org.uk/news/seregrep.htm.
2 Thames Cancer Registry publications
The Registry has recently published papers on a wide range of topics including the future burden of cancer in England in 2020, testis cancer and prostate cancer incidence in ethnic minority groups, trends in radiotherapy waiting times for breast cancer, the treatment of teenagers and young adults with cancer, and trends and variations in place of death from cancer. Details of these and other publications can be found at http://www.tcr.org.uk/news/index.htm and are updated monthly.
3 Thames Cancer Registry events
The Registry recently held training days for Multi-disciplinary Team Co-ordinators in London and South East Coast Strategic Health Authorities and hosted the UK Association of Cancer Registries Study Day. Local clinicians talked about topics including chemotherapy, surgery, palliative care and one patient described her experience of diagnosis. The Registry plans a larger event later this year after the publication of the Cancer Reform Strategy (http://www.tcr.org.uk/news/index.htm).
4 Cancer registration data for 2005 is now available
The Thames Cancer Registry successfully completed “closedown” for data for the year 2005 in July 2007 (http://www.tcr.org.uk/news/statav05.htm). The Information Team is now accepting requests for this data. Please telephone a member of the Team to discuss your request or see the website http://www.tcr.org.uk/info/adhocreq.htm for further details.
5 Using the Cancer Information Service (CIS)
The National Cancer Information Service (CIS) is a web-based information system that permits access to cancer incidence, survival and mortality data for England through the NHSnet. The Registry will host the National CIS and is currently setting this up. The National CIS will be made available to our users later this year.
6 LUCADA audit
The Thames Cancer Registry collaborates in the analysis of this national audit data set for Lung Cancer. The latest report is available at http://www.tcr.org.uk/news/natlungaudit.htm.
7 Ideas for future analysis
The Registry is always keen to hear from individuals with new ideas for using the registration database that have the potential to improve the understanding of cancer, its prevention or management. Please contact Professor Henrik Møller, Director of the Registry in the first instance.
8 Summer visitors
Through its association with International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the Registry regularly receives visitors from Europe and developing countries wishing to learn how to develop their cancer registration system. In May we welcomed visitors from Ghana and Nepal.
Paul A Opoku, Shiva Sapkota (IARC visitors) and Karen M Linklater (Senior Information Analyst)
9 Cancer registry peer review
Along with other cancer services, cancer registries in England are undergoing peer review. The report for the Thames Cancer Registry published in March commended the registry for several aspects of good practice in each of the areas of organisation and management, uses of information, data quality and data sources and processes. Concerns about the function and representatives of the steering group, the tracking of requests and some aspects of quality of data are being addressed. A copy of the report is available at http://www.tcr.org.uk/news/revrepdoc.htm.
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