Welcome to EUROCARE

EUROCARE(EUROpean CAncer REgistry-based study on survival and CARE of cancer patients) is a cancer epidemiology research project on survival of European cancer patients. The project is based on a collaboration established in 1989 between the Istituto Nazionale Tumori (Milan, Italy), the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Rome, Italy) and a large number of population-based cancer registries, from12 European countries, with incidence and survival data available.
Thanks to a steadily growing number of participating registries the study has provided regular and increasingly comprehensive publications on cancer patient survival in Europe. EUROCARE has collected and analysed survival data on patients diagnosed from 1978 to 1984 (EUROCARE-1), from 1978 to 1989 (EUROCARE-2), from 1983 to 1994 (EUROCARE-3) and from 1988 to 2002 (EUROCARE-4).
This fourth and current edition of EUROCARE includes data on more than 13 millions of cancer diagnoses provided by 93 population based cancer registries in 23 European countries. The main aim of EUROCARE-4 is to update survival of cancer patients in Europe and to detect timely substantial changes across regions and over time.
The EUROCARE Co-ordinating Centre operates at the Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Fondazione Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, while the database implementation and analyses are performed at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit and Data Analysis Centre, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome.