EUROCHIP PILOT STUDIES
Cancer registries have provided population-based,
comparative survival statistics for cancer patients since 1960.
Moreover, the EUROCARE project - a co-operative, cancer registry-based
study - compares cancer patient survival since 1978. EUROCARE underlined
big differences in cancer survival across Europe.
EUROCHIP focuses on fighting inequalities in cancer. Its aim is
to improve information and knowledge on cancer.
The EUROCHIP-1 project funded by the European Commission
under the large-scale Health Monitoring Program (HMP), identified
a list of indicators for cancer including those on treatment and
clinical aspects related with cancer survival.
Among them, the indicators “Delay of cancer treatment”
and “Compliance with guidelines” were supposed to be
strictly associated with the wide inter-country variation in cancer
survival. Treatment delay in particular, could be related to:
a) individual condition of the patient
b) biological condition of the patient
c) health system deficiencies
The EUROCHIP Pilot Study is a feasibility study
to collect data on health system delays (point c) adjusting for
individual and biological conditions (points a and b). The EUROCHIP
feasibility study represent a key determinant with respect to the
inclusion of “Delay of cancer treatment” and “Compliance
with guidelines” in the European Commission indicators list
on cancer. Up to now, comparisons of these indicators across Europe
have never been performed at population level.
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LIST OF PARTECIPATING COUNTRIES
| COUNTRY |
ACTION |
DOCUMENT |
SITUATION AT MARCH 2007 |
| Cyprus |
EUROCHIP Pilot Studies Protocol |
 |
Data collected |
| Czech Republic |
Data collected |
| France |
Data in collection |
| Netherlands |
Data collected |
| Poland |
Data in collection |
| Portugal |
Data in collection |
| Slovakia |
Data collected |
| Spain |
Data in collection |
| Slovenia |
EUROCHIP Pilot Studies and indicator
status in Slovenia |
|
Data collected |
| Finland |
EUROCHIP Pilot Studies on breast
cancer |
|
Data collected |
| Ireland |
EUROCHIP qualitative Pilot Studies |
|
Data in collection |
| United Kingdom |
 |
Data in collection |
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