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NCIN is part of the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI)

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Fax: 020 7061 8461

E-mail: enquiries@ncin.org.uk

The NCIN is part of the National Cancer Research Institute

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Analysis and Information

Text Box: NCIN and Analysis
The NCIN is developing a centrally resource analytical and information group, responsible for producing some of the relevant outputs and for ensuring that these are published. 
Some of these outputs will be commissioned from cancer registries and other organisations with an involvement in cancer intelligence as partner organisations within NCIN.
The production of outputs relating to specific sites of cancer will normally be led by the cancer registry with lead responsibility for that site, in collaboration with appropriate clinical and service user stakeholder groups.
An NCIN National Cancer Data Repository will be established during 2008 for analytical purposes, comprising initially a merged dataset provided by all cancer registries in England and the Office for National Statistics, linked to Hospital Episode Statistics (HES).
Text Box: Cancer in the UK in 2008
  300,000 new cases of cancer in the UK in 2008
  150,000 cancer deaths in the UK in 2008
  2 million cancer survivors in the UK at the end of 2008 
  10% of people in the UK aged 65+ are cancer survivors
  The number of cancer survivors is increasing by 3.2% each year

(Excluding non-melanoma skin cancer, C44)

National Statistics

Incidence, mortality and survival statistics are also available from the following agencies:

England and Wales—the Office for National Statistics

Wales—the Welsh Cancer Surveillance and Intelligence Unit

Scotland—Information Services Department (ISD), Scotland

Northern Ireland—Northern Ireland Cancer Registry

United Kingdom—Cancer Research UK

Regional Statistics

Regional statistics for England are available directly from the 8 regional cancer registries

Regional Statistics for the non-English countries are available directly from the national agencies

Why do the data I am looking at sometimes differ from other published data for the same time period?