Lead Cancer Registries

Cancer registries form the core of the NCIN and each of the English cancer registries has taken the lead for one or more tumour sites. The lead registries support the Site Specific Clinical Reference Group for that site and deal with data requests for the relevant tumours.

The lead registries for each site are shown below.

Tumour site Lead Registry
Breast cancer West Midlands Cancer Intelligence Unit
CNS cancers Eastern Cancer Registry and Information Centre
Colorectal cancer Northern and Yorkshire Cancer Registration and Information Service
Gynaecological cancers Trent Cancer Registry
Haematological cancers Northern and Yorkshire Cancer Registration and Information Service
Head & neck cancers Oxford Cancer Intelligence Unit
Lung cancer Thames Cancer Registry
Sarcomas West Midlands Cancer Intelligence Unit
Skin cancer South West Public Health Observatory
Upper GI cancers Thames Cancer Registry
Urological cancers South West Public Health Observatory
Children & TYA North West Cancer Intelligence Service
Childhood Cancer Research Group

Requests for information about multiple tumour types should initially be directed to the applicant's local cancer registry. Requests for regional information should be directed to cancer registry covering that region; the United Kingdom Association of Cancer Registries (UKACR) provides a registry finder tool to identify the registry responsible for a particular area.