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Official statistics on cancer incidence and survival in N. Ireland for 2010 will be published on Tuesday June 12th at 9.30am.
Annual Celebration of Excellence 2012 Award
Further details are available here.
Launch of Pancreatic Cancer Audit and Leukaemia & Lymphoma Audit
The audit results follow last week’s recognition for Queen’s at Buckingham Palace, when the University was awarded a Diamond Jubilee Queen’s Anniversary Prize for its leadership of the Northern Ireland Comprehensive Cancer Services programme. The programme has led to improved cancer survival rates in Northern Ireland and is a collaboration led by Queen’s in partnership with the Department of Health and the five Northern Ireland Health Trusts with support from the medical research industry.
Speaking at the conference, Dr Anna Gavin, Director of the N. Ireland Cancer Registry, said: “Examination of data for pancreatic cancer patients diagnosed in 2010 shows a doubling of survival, a real breakthrough for this disease. If such a survival improvement was seen from a new drug, it would hit the headlines internationally.
Mr Poots said that his Department was proud of the achievements of the University and their health service partner and he was confident that leadership in research is informing improvements in treatment, and to leading clinicians and other health professionals choosing to work in Northern Ireland. The Pancreatic cancer and Leukaemia & Lymphoma Audit reports are available here.
The first ever All-Ireland Cancer Atlas a collaborative publication of the National Cancer Registry Ireland and the N. Ireland Cancer Registry launched on Friday 9 December 2011 analysed 18 types of cancer by electoral division over a 12-year period.
Commenting on the findings in the Atlas, Dr Anna Gavin, Director of the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, said: “Mapping the incidence of cancer geographically in Ireland is hugely important in our quest to understand factors that increase cancer rates and also to provide appropriate treatment and cancer services.”
Dr Harry Comber, Director of the National Cancer Registry said: “The Atlas shows major variations, sometimes more than two-fold, in the risk of several cancers, across the island. Understanding the reasons for this geographical variation, and taking appropriate action, would reduce the cancer burden significantly in Ireland. Areas with unexplained higher than average risk should now be studied in detail and a comprehensive programme of research into already known determinants of cancer risk in Ireland is needed to inform cancer control.”
All-Ireland Cancer Atlas Chapters can be downloaded from http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/nicr/Publications/AllIrelandReports/
3rd National Conference on Population-Based Cancer Research in Ireland
Abstract submission closed
The 3rd National Conference on Population-Based Cancer Research in Ireland will take place in the Gresham Hotel, Dublin on Thursday 17 November 2011. For more details please click the link
The first Irish Conference on Survivorship after Cancer during Childhood and Adolescence, 26th November 2011.
The Boyne Research Institute, Drogheda, Ireland in association with PanCareSurFup and the Irish Cancer Society will host the first Irish Conference on Survivorship after Cancer during Childhood and Adolescence. This 1-day conference will take place in the Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin, on Saturday, November 26th, 2011. For more information visit www.ccs2011.ie.
If you would like to attend, please contact Cíara Hall on 041 98 36041, chall@boyneresearch.ie to RSVP, or visit www.ccs2011.ie to register and to find out more.
NCIN & UKACR Conference
Staff from the NICR recently attending the NCIN & UKACR Conference "Liberating Information, Improving Outcomes" in the Hilton Hotel Metropole Hotel between the 15-17 of June 2011. The Registry submitted several abstracts and presented 9 posters at the conference to view abstracts of each or download the posters please click the above link.
2011/2012 Business Plan & 2011 Newsletter
The NICR 2011/2012 Business Plan and 2011 Newsletter are both available for download.
