31 August 2009

Gerda Engholm

Agenda for the NORDCAN meeting 4 September 2009 2-5 pm

Place and time: Sigtuna, Sweden 4 September 2009, 14-17

Participants: Jacques Ferlay, Elinborg Olafsdottir, Eero Pukkala, Freddie Bray, Åsa Klint, Marianne Lundkjær Gjerstorff, Hans Storm, Niels Christensen, Gerda Engholm. Jóanis Erik Køtlum

Invited guests (experts in prediction) to prediction discussion: Timo Hakulinen, Tadek Dyba, Bjørn Møller, Harald Wedon- Fekjær

Agenda

The order of the points can be discussed and changed

  1. 14-15:30 Meeting with prediction experts about the possible future prediction facility in NORDCAN.
  2. Minutes from last meeting 4-5 March 2009. Minutes can be found at the homepage
  3. From the secretariat.
  4. The web-version was updated to version 3.4 23/4 2009 with the coverage to be seen below.
  5. Graphics have been renewed in all language versions
  6. Update of PC-version 2.4, 35-year time series 1972-2006, was made in May 2009.
  7. Data delivered. We have received new data for the next update (September 2009, version 3.5) from Denmark (incidence 2007 in ICD-O-3. We expect to receive Swedish mortality 2007.
  8. Time plan for next updates. Version 3.6 should be in January-February 2010
  9. Error and warning lists have been available on the FTP-site for each country.
  10. Download requests
  11. News from each of the countries
  12. Revisions of texts and sub-menues
  13. Revisions of notes about the NORDCAN database. (bladder and brain might need new text)
  14. CI-interval for EAPC
  15. References, any new?
  16. Other?
  17. New categories in NORDCAN?
  18. Division of morphologies as in CI5 version IX
  19. Division of leukemia into smaller sites (CLL, CML, ALL, AML, other or unknown). Niels has made some tables of the numbers and percentage distribution for each country in 5 year calendar periods from 1978 as a starting point for discussion. The tables can also be found at the web-site.
  20. NORDCAN with regions? We still need to decide if we want to have a version with division by regions
  21. Survival project
  22. How to include in NORDCAN?
  23. Papers on all main groups of cancers cover all the sites except non-melanoma skin. Trends(W) by countries for each sex 1964-2003 for both incidence and mortality for all the individual sites will be included and will be discussed here along with the survival.
  24. Predictions and survival. How should these possible new facilities be included in NORDCAN
  25. Papers
  26. Papers on specific sites. All had assignments (look at to do list from 4 September 2008. Might be seen in connection with the survival project.
  27. General NORDCAN paper. We plan the paper to be published in Acta Oncologica along with the survival papers and with acceptance from the editor duplicate publications in national languages in national medical bulletins as well. A revised manuscript is not ready yet.
  28. Next meeting
  29. Other business

The NORDCAN Database (Version 3.4, 04.2009)
Data availability
Country / Incidence / Mortality / Prevalence
Nordic countries* / 1960-2006 / 1953-2006 / 1980-2006
Denmark / 1943-2006 / 1951-2006 / 1963-2006
Faeroe Islands / 1960-2005 / 1983-2006 / -
Finland / 1953-2007 / 1953-2007 / 1973-2007
Iceland / 1955-2007 / 1951-2007 / 1975-2007
Norway / 1953-2007 / 1953-2006 / 1973-2007
Sweden / 1960-2007 / 1952-2006 / 1980-2007
*The Faeroe Islands are presently not included in the Nordic Countries group