The Bremen Cancer Registry is a population based database collecting incident cases of cancer diagnosed since January 1998 in the population of the Federal state of Bremen (population n=661,450 in the year 2000). The Registry provides data for the analysis of
Physicians send notifications to the Data Collection Office of the Registry. Personal identifiers are kept at the Data Collection Office, while anonymised data containing medical information is forwarded to the Data Analysis Office of the Registry. For pathologists, notifying the Registry is mandatory by law, while for all other physicians notification is voluntary.
The Registry is funded by the Bremen State Government and is working on the basis of the Bremen State Cancer Registry Law. Once per year, the Registry is reporting to the German national health authorities (Robert Koch Institut, RKI, Berlin). Since the incidence year of 2001, the Registry has a completeness level of > 95 %, based on expected values provided by the RKI.
German and English publications as well as tables of the Registry may be downloaded from http://www.krebsregister.bremen.de, clicking either on: "Publikationen" or "Tabellen" for accessing Reports or MS-Excel tables Excel-Files contain number of incident cases by gender and age, age-specific rates per 100,000, age-standardized rates (standard populations: World/Segi, European, German Standard 1987), as well as the Bremen population.
The Registry has been audited by the European Network of Cancer Registries (ENCR) in June 2003 with a positive feedback.
Bremen Cancer Registry (Registerstelle)
Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine (BIPS)
Achterstr. 30
D-28359 Bremen
Phone: +49 (0)421 218-56961
Fax: +49 (0)421 218-56941
E-mail:
Internet: http://www.krebsregister.bremen.de