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Colorado Central Cancer RegistryThe Colorado Central Cancer Registry is the statewide cancer surveillance program of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The program's goal is to reduce death and illness due to cancer by informing citizens and health professionals through statistics and reports on incidence, treatment and survival, and deaths due to cancer. The Registry is mandated by Colorado
law and a regulation
(pdf file) Colorado Central Cancer Registry data are used to:
Registry statistics are used by physicians and other health professionals, hospital administrators and planners, the general public, legislators, government agencies including local and county health departments, epidemiologists, students, researchers, and the news media.
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment For more information
contact: 303-692-2540 |
passed by the Colorado Board of
Health. It receives financial support from the Colorado State General Fund
and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (National Program
of Cancer Registries) under Cooperative Agreement U58000848. Information is collected from all Colorado hospitals, pathology labs, outpatient
clinics, physicians solely responsible for diagnosis and treatment, and state Vital
Statistics. Pertinent data is registered on all malignant tumors, except basal and squamous cell carcinomas of the skin. All individual patient, physician, and hospital
information is confidential as required by Colorado law.