CALVADOS GENERAL CANCER REGISTRY (CERTIFIED REGISTRY 2013-2016)

The main purpose of the registry is to produce, through active and exhaustive collection of cases, data enabling indicators to be calculated for monitoring population health (incidence, survival and prevalence). In this regard, the Registry takes part in the national cancer surveillance programme from the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS). The Registry's data is included in the database of the French cancer registry network (FRANCIM), which is managed by the Biostatistics Laboratory of the Lyon-Sud Faculty of Medicine in connection with the InVS. It is used to estimate cancer incidence across France as a whole and per region, and to study incidence trends over the last 25 years. It is also used to estimate prevalence and analyse survival on a regular basis by the FRANCIM network for France and by the EUROCARE group for Europe. The registry data is also sent at regular intervals to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (Lyon) for publication in Cancer Incidence in Five Continents from the first available five-year period. The Registry takes part in cooperative studies conducted as part of the FRANCIM and EUROCARE networks aimed at evaluating medical practices in the population, providing recommendations at Consensus conferences and measuring their impact on public health. These studies focussed on the following sites: thyroid, breast, lung, prostate, testicle and skin melanoma. Objectives of the registry in terms of research: - Social inequalities and access to healthcare; - Reintegration of patients in long-term remission or who have recovered from cancer; - Pesticide exposure and cancer risk in the agricultural environment (EPI95 cohort).