Belgian Cancer Registry: Anatomical Pathologists

The Belgian Cancer Registry (BCR) is obliged by law to register all new cancer diagnoses in Belgium (Health act of 13 December 2006). The cancer registration data are delivered by the oncological care programs, the laboratories for pathological anatomy and the health insurances and are collected in the Cancer registration database.

Additionally, all laboratories for pathological anatomy are legally obliged since 2010 (amendment to the Health Act of 2006) to transmit all the results of breast, cervical and colorectal samples to the BCR. These data are collected in a central Cyto-histopathology registry and used for the organization and evaluation of the cancer screening programs for breast-, cervix- and colorectal cancer in Belgium.

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Field	Value
Publisher	Belgian Cancer Registry
Modified	2021-05-09
Release Date	2018-03-31
Identifier	4013fb32-4dc5-4735-9001-bbe01a3f0e91
License	Creative Commons Attribution
Public Access Level	Public

Protocol

Protocol
Full title of the project	Belgian Cancer Registry: Anatomical Pathologists
Title of the project for lay people, in easily understood, i.e. non-technical, language	Belgian Cancer Registry: Anatomical Pathologists
Name or abbreviated title of the project where available	BCR Anapat
Source type	Patient registries

Sponsor(s)

Primary organization that oversees implementation of study and is responsible for data analysis.
Name of organisation	Belgian Cancer Registry

Governance

Governance
Is there a Steering / Accompanying committee?	No information available

General information

General information
Project description	The Belgian Cancer Registry (BCR) is obliged by law to register all new cancer diagnoses in Belgium (Health act of 13 December 2006). The cancer registration data are delivered by the oncological care programs, the laboratories for pathological anatomy and the health insurances and are collected in the Cancer registration database. Additionally, all laboratories for pathological anatomy are legally obliged since 2010 (amendment to the Health Act of 2006) to transmit all the results of breast, cervical and colorectal samples to the BCR. These data are collected in a central Cyto-histopathology registry and used for the organization and evaluation of the cancer screening programs for breast-, cervix- and colorectal cancer in Belgium.

Therapeutic area
Disease	Cancer

Objective of the project
Main objective of the project	Analyse and report incidence, prevalence and survival of the different forms of cancer Study the etiology of cancer Create reports for international organisations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Evaluation of quality of care Analyze the geographical distribution of the different forms of cancer (incidence, trends) so possible causes can be researched and risk factors can be compared Perform and support scientific research Provide feedback to oncological care programs about individual patients Organisation and evaluation of the cancer screening programs in Belgium through: Creation of exclusion lists (consists of all persons for which a screening examination is not required for the next invitation round) to obtain a cost-effective screeningprogram and to avoid overscreening Registration of follow-up: To monitor if an abnormal screening test is followed by a suitable follow-up examination To set up a fail-safe mechanism: To identify (in a short delay) persons who lack follow-up after an abnormal screening test to encourage suitable follow-up Identification and analysis of screen-detected and interval cancers: Interval cancers are diagnosed after a negative screening within a time period equal to the screening interval Calculation and report of quality indicators to closely monitor the quality of the screening programs and to identify issues in need of improvement. Support and perform screening-related research projects
Additional information	No additional information available

Legal basis

Type of legal basis
Type of legal basis	National Law Royal Decree

Legal documents
Full reference of legal document	Wetten en Koninklijke besluiten in het kader van kanker register

Design of the project

Principal inclusion and exclusion criteria
Principal inclusion criteria	All persons with an anatomo-pathological test result with outcome ‘cancer’ (cf. the inclusion criteria provided by the BCR) All persons with an anatomo-pathological test result (any given diagnosis) from a breast-, cervix- or colorectal sample

Data transfer frequency
Data transfer frequency	Unknown

Method of data transfer
Data transfer method(s)	Unknown

Sites involved in the project

Type of site(s)
Care Provider	Unknown

Health professionals involved (encoding) in the project

Health professionals involved (encoding) in the project
Care Giver	Other
Specialty of physicians involved (encoding) in the project	Unknown
Type of paramedical professionals involved (encoding) in the project	Unknown

Informed consent

Informed consent
Are subjects informed?	Not applicable
How are subjects informed?	Not applicable
Do subjects have to give their consent?	Not applicable
How do subjects give their consent?	No information available
Is there a procedure to provide subjects the ability to consult their registered information?	Not applicable
Is there a procedure to provide subjects the ability to correct their registered information?	Not applicable
Describe the procedures to provide the subjects the ability to consult and correct the information	Not applicable: Art 9 §2 of the Act of 8 December 1992 on the protection of privacy in relation to the processing of personal data provides exemption from the duty of information if personal data is recorded or provided with a view to the application of an act, decree or ordinance.
Describe the procedures to provide the subjects the ability to consult and correct the information	Not applicable: Art 9 §2 of the Act of 8 December 1992 on the protection of privacy in relation to the processing of personal data provides exemption from the duty of information if personal data is recorded or provided with a view to the application of an act, decree or ordinance.
Additional information	No additional information available

Review

Ethics Committee
Authorization by an Ethics Committee?	No information available

Sectoral Committee National Registry (Privacy Commission)
Authorization by the sectorial committee Health / Social affairs of the Privacy Commission	No information available

Sectoral Committee Health / Social affairs (Privacy Commission)
Authorization by the sectorial committee Health / Social affairs of the Privacy Commission	Yes
Full name committee	Sectoraal Comité van de Sociale Zekerheid en van de Gezondheid
Date of decision	2017-04-18
Title decision	BERAADSLAGING NR. 17/034 VAN 18 APRIL 2017 BETREFFENDE DE INZAMELING VAN PERSOONSGEGEVENS DIE DE GEZONDHEID BETREFFEN DOOR DE STICHTING KANKERREGISTER VIA HEALTHDATA.BE
Nr. Decision	SCSZG/17/067

Sectoral Committee Crossroads Bank of Enterprises (Privacy Commission)
Authorization by the sectorial committee Crossroads Bank of Enterprises of the Privacy Commission (Y/N)	No information available

Data dictionary

Classifications and Terminology
Name	Unknown

Data quality

Data quality
First year for which data is available	No information available
Procedures for checking and validating the source data	No information available
Data compilation process	No information available
Punctuality for the most recent completed data collection: the data collection was completed	No information available
Participation rate of the health institutions	No information available
Participation rate of the health professionals	No information available
Extent of unit non-response	No information available
Extent of the item non-response	There is nearly no item non-response
Extend to which the collected data are comparable across the Belgian regions	Comparability across the Belgian areas is unknown
Comparable or reconcilable over time	Comparability over time is unknown
Additional information	No additional information available
Extent of problems with the misclassification of statistical units for their key variables	No information available
Can records belonging to same entity be matched?	No information available
Additional information	No additional information available

Data storage

Data storage
The organisation in charge of storage of the collected data, is certified as being compliant with the international standards on information security management system (eg. ISO27001)?	No information available
Additional information	No additional information available

Data access

Data access
Written Data sharing policy?	No

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