Prof. dr. Elisabete Weiderpass, director of the International Agency on Research of Cancer (IARC) presented from Lyon the international numbers on cancer incidence. Cancer is on the rise globally, in the EU and in the Netherlands. 'The good news? A lot of cancer types are preventable. They come from smoking, alcohol use, unhealthy diets, excess weight and viruses. The value for data is to guide action! Without cancer registry data you are basically flying blind, because you don’t know what should be the priorities. However, there is an overflow of information and what we have observed is that science is not always easy to communicate. Communication is a challenge for cancer registries in Europe and can help to increase the impact of cancer registry data.'

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