Eastern Cancer Registration
The Eastern Cancer Registration and Information Centre (ECRIC) registers all malignant tumours and some pre-cancerous lesions occurring in people resident in the East of England at the time of diagnosis. ECRIC is also the National Brain Tumour Registry for England.
What are Cancer Registries?
Cancer registries are unique in being able to provide adequate historical trend and population-based data to monitor changes in cancer incidence or survival over long periods of time. [See a full article on What is Cancer Registration, on the United Kingdom Association of Cancer Registries' website.]
Identifiable patient data is never released from the registry without appropriate ethical approval and the registry will never contact individual patients or their relatives. Details of about the benefits of cancer registration are available on the UK Association of Cancer Registries website.
