Nordic cancer registration, a review of an invaluable source and example for surveillance, research and public health for more than 70 years

Cancer registration has been with us for decades surveilling societies cancer incidence, trends, mortality and survival. Data are used health care planning but even more so research in treatment, outcome prevention – i.e. overall control. With the 70th anniversary of Registry Norway, this paper examines impact role registry past today affiliated Nordic countries, as well scientific peer reviewed productivity. The collaboration cancer-registry-based benefits from previous actual ongoing activities Norway. Norway is a prominent independent organization under Oslo University Hospital Trust registry-based epidemiology, multidisciplinary broad-based high quality professional staff. portfolio includes regular registration, linkage to external data e.g. occupation, biobanks clinical conducting analysis clear national, international relevance. Various threats ownership registries derived epidemiology past, such organizational changes loss independence were avoided interpretation protection following GDPR causes delays or may block research.