Morten Ervik

International Agency for Research on Cancer · Cancer Surveillance Branch

Accurate information on the extent of disease around the time of diagnosis is an important component of cancer care, in defining disease prognosis, and evaluating national and international cancer control policies. However, the collection of stage data by population-based cancer registries remains a challenge in both high-income and low and middle-...

Background and context: Cancer control requires knowledge of cancer incidence. Information on anatomic extent of disease (stage) at presentation significantly enhances incidence and mortality data in understanding the cancer burden. The most frequently used staging classification of cancer disease extent is the tumor, node, metastases (TNM). Popula...

Background: Global investment in research on noncommunicable diseases is on the rise. Cancer as primus inter pares draws particular interest from a wide spectrum of research funders. Next to the private, governmental, and academic sectors, philanthropy has carved out a sizeable area in the funding landscape over the last 25 years. Previous reports...

Background This era of big data has led to a myriad of new interesting data analysis and visualization tools. Many of them are leveraging the power of modern HTML5 compliant web browsers to present the users with tools to, not only see ready-made views of datasets, but also interactive tools for exploration of the data. Some of these tools, and und...

Background CanReg5 is an open source software package for population based cancer registries to enter, quality control, and store data, based on international standards. Technology, third party tools and libraries, has evolved quite a bit since CanReg5 was designed, some six years ago. This has allowed us to keep adding new functionality, like, for...