The Bremen Cancer Registry collects data on the frequency and distribution of cancer diseases as well as on the treatment and courses of disease. The registration takes place with reference to the place of residence for all patients with cancer living in the state of Bremen as well as with reference to the place of treatment for all patients treated in the state of Bremen. As early as 1998, a cancer registry was established in the state of Bremen, which initially only recorded the occurrence of cancer in the population of Bremen. Since 2015, therapies and courses of the disease have also been recorded for all patients treated in Bremen. The Bremen Cancer Registry consists of a trust center and an analysis center. Data which include names and addresses are processed exclusively in the trust center. Data analysis takes place in the analysis center, where data are available without reference to names. The Bremen Cancer Registry is located at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS. BIPS also carries out the tasks of the analysis center. The Bremen Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians is responsible for carrying out the tasks of the trust center. The Senator for Health, Women and Consumer Protection is responsible for supervising the Bremen Cancer Registry.

The aim of our work is to support the research into and the fight against cancer and to contribute to the improvement of medical-oncological treatment and care and thus increase the chances of survival and the quality of life for cancer patients.

Every physician is obligated to report the diagnosis, therapy as well as progression or re-occurrence of cancer, if it occurs within his or her area of responsibility. A correct overall picture of tumors in Bremen and a contribution to research into cancer treatment improvement can only be accomplished if reports are complete.

There are epidemiological and clinical cancer registries in the other federal states, too. In order to compile and analyze reports on the diagnosis, therapy, course of disease and aftercare on a national level according to the same scheme, the data set to be reported by physicians is defined uniformly throughout Germany. That way, cancer occurrence can be monitored on a long-term and supra-regional basis and knowledge about successes and deficits in oncological care can be gained. To avoid duplicate records of cancer cases, for example if a treatment of cancer does not take place in the federal state of residence, cancer registries exchange information regularly.

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