Clinical Cancer Registry

Since 1989, the Clinical Cancer Registry at UMG has recorded data concerning the causes, diagnosis, treatment and course of disease as well as adverse effects of all oncological patients treated at UMG. At the Göttingen Comprehensive  Cancer Center, trained medical documentarists conduct all documentation in close cooperation with physicians and clinical departments. The data helps physicians to analyze diagnostic and therapeutic interventions and optimize them. Therefore, the Clinical Cancer Registry is an essential contribution to improving quality of oncological care and research.

The Clinical Cancer Registry cooperates with the Epidemiological Cancer Registry Lower Saxony, the Clinical Cancer Registry Lower Saxony, the aftercare center of the Physician’s Association Lower Saxony, and the Claudia von Schilling Center at the Medical School Hanover. Throughout this cooperation, all centers adhere to data privacy laws.

Since 2017, the law for implementation of cancer screening and registry in Lower Saxony allows the Clinical Cancer Registry at UMG to report all collected data to the Clinical Cancer Registry Lower Saxony. The doctors treating each patient ensure explanation of this report, the right to object, and the right to receive information about all personal saved data.

The Clinical Cancer Registry Lower Saxony registers all cancer cases in Lower Saxony and compiles data concerning the therapies of cancer patients and their respective course of disease. This data collection helps research cancer causes and allows conclusions about cancer treatments and their quality.

The Clinical Cancer Registry at UMG reports the legally mandated data concerning diagnosis, therapy. and course of disease generated at UMG to the Clinical Cancer Registry Lower Saxony.