New web portal on cancer epidemiology in Slovakia

The main objective of the project „National Portal of Cancer Epidemiology in Slovakia“ is to develop an information system to support scientific analyses from cancer data which are registered in the National Cancer Registry (NCR) at the National Health Information Centre (NHIC) of the Slovak Republic. The portal is primarily focused on epidemiological data and thus on the analysis of trends, regional differences and population risks. Users can find here a set of interactive tools and automatic reports, allowing a simple orientation within the database and output views according to personal preferences, even for non qualified users.

The project initiation has been driven by the effort to make these representative and valuable data available to a broad spectrum of interested persons. The project is based on the presumption that general information about cancer epidemiology and related population risks should be freely available to all citizens of the Slovak Republic. In this way, the user gets a direct and unique access to complex information from available resources, which can be further used to subsequent analyses and interpretations.

The launch of portal on cancer epidemiology in Slovakia follows the positive feedback on web portal SVOD (System for Visualization of Oncology Data), which informs both professional and lay public on cancer epidemiology in the Czech Republic.

Examples of graphical outputs on the www.nor-sk.org portal.

 Feel free to download the information leaflet (PDF format, 1.5 MB).

5. 10. 2007 Administrator

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