Tasmanian Cancer Registry

The Tasmanian Cancer registry is responsible for collecting, collating and reporting incidence of all malignant neoplasms in Tasmanian residents. By law, cancer registration is required in all Australian States and Territories to assist State and National efforts to understand the causes of cancer, to plan health services and assist prevention efforts and treatment decisions.

The Tasmanian Cancer Registry is funded by the Department of Health Tasmania. The Director of the Registry is Dr Jessica Roydhouse, and the manager is Bruna Ragaini.

For further information contact:

Tasmanian Cancer Registry
menzies.tcr@utas.edu.au
Telephone: +61 3 6226 7757
Fax: +61 3 6226 7755

Reports

The Registry produces annual reports with data on the number of cancer cases and deaths from cancer, and periodical reports on cancer survival and prevalence.

Latest reports

National cancer statistics published by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Data Access Guidelines

The data collected by the Tasmanian Cancer Registry are used by the Department of Health and Human Services and by national and international agencies reporting cancer statistics.

Potentially identifiable or identifiable data are protected by legislation and release is subject to approvals from an ethics committee, TCR Director and data custodian (i.e., the Tasmanian Director of Public Health or delegate).

Non-identifying data are available on request. Data are supplied as tables or graphs of incidence and mortality and/or number of cases and deaths for specific years, age groups, regional areas or cancer subgroups. These requests come from researchers, medical practitioners, government departments, students and the community.

Please see our Data Access Guidelines (PDF 210KB) and Data Access Guidelines Flow Chart (PDF 134KB) for more information.

For information on the Human Research Ethics Committee (Tasmania) Network.

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