Cancer Registries

Tumor registries are databases or collections of records of cancer patients. The International Registry for Cancer Research is the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). In the Czech Republic, these records are collected by the National Cancer Registry (NOR). The purpose of NOR is the registration of oncological diseases and the periodic monitoring of their further development, ie data collection, verification, storage, protection and processing. NOR provides summary data for statistical surveys at both national and international levels, as well as for epidemiological studies and health research. NOR data also serve to support the early diagnosis and treatment of neoplasms and pre-tumor conditions, to monitor trends in their occurrence, causal factors and social consequences. NOR is a member of the IARC (International Association of Cancer Registries) in Lyon, cooperates with the European Network of Cancer Registries and maintains contact with registries abroad. NOR is an integral part of comprehensive oncological care.

Data tracked by NOR

 * Birth number (to find out age and sex),
 * permanent residence (municipality code only),
 * social status (employee, self-employed, unemployed, unemployed, homeless, unknown),
 * condition (person living in the same household, alone, unknown),
 * country of origin,
 * cancer detected during (screening, preventive examination, clinically manifest cancer, autopsy, other method, unknown),
 * the date of the first visit to the doctor,
 * date of diagnosis,
 * smoking (yes, no, former smoker, unknown),
 * laterality (in the case of a paired organ),
 * examination leading to diagnosis (clinically manifest symptoms, histology, surgery, cytology, imaging methods, endoscopy, biochemical or immunological laboratory examination, markers, autopsy, DCO = "Death Certificate Only" - diagnosis only on the basis of the Certificate of Examination of the Dead),
 * diagnosis (to be completed in Czech or Latin in the most accurate form possible).

Notifiable diseases
ICD: II. Chapter of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD − 10: Tenth Revision, ICD − 9: Ninth Revision)

Cases are also reported:


 * not histologically or cytologically verified, detected only by clinical examination, possibly by imaging examination methods;
 * cancer diagnosed at the patient's death, when the information about the tumor is not in the medical documentation and the diagnosis of cancer is given only on the form "Certificate of examination of the dead" (these are the so-called cases of DCO = death certificate only);
 * cancer detected only at autopsy;
 * illness in persons with citizenship of the Czech Republic and in foreigners with a permit for permanent or long-term (visa over 90 days) residence in the Czech Republic.

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