{"entity":{"id":"cyprus-cancer-registry","kind":"institution","name":"Cyprus Cancer Registry","aka":["CyCR","Κυπριακό Αρχείο Καρκίνου","Health Monitoring Unit, Ministry of Health, Cyprus"],"tldr":"Cyprus's population-based cancer registry, run by the Ministry of Health's Health Monitoring Unit. Its figures show about 4,260 new cancers a year in 2018 to 2022.","summary":"The European Network of Cancer Registries' member list names the Cyprus Cancer Registry, an all-ages, all-sites registry at the Ministry of Health's Health Monitoring Unit, 1 Prodromou Street and 17 Chilonos Street, Nicosia. A 2015 analysis in Tumori of the registry's data for 1998 to 2008 found world age-standardised incidence rising from 195.4 to 239.0 per 100,000 in men and from 180.6 to 217.1 per 100,000 in women between 1998-2002 and 2006-2008, with prostate, lung, colorectal and bladder cancers the most frequent in men and breast, colorectal, uterine and thyroid cancers in women.\n\nIn February 2026 the Health Minister presented Health Monitoring Unit figures at the 2nd Pancyprian Oncology Congress: an average of 4,260 new cancers a year in 2018 to 2022 and about 1,600 cancer deaths a year in 2019 to 2023, with cancer causing 23% of deaths in 2023. He said the Ministry runs early detection programmes for breast and colorectal cancer, plans programmes for prostate and cervical cancer, and that a National Cancer Institute is being set up. The coordinates are an approximate OpenStreetMap point for Prodromou Street, Strovolos.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"European Network of Cancer Registries: members contact list (Cyprus)","url":"https://www.encr.eu/encr-members-contact-list"},{"label":"Politis: Cyprus records 4,260 new cancer cases annually (7 February 2026)","url":"https://en.politis.com.cy/social-lens/985101/cyprus-records-4260-new-cancer-cases-annually"},{"label":"Incidence and time trends of cancer in Cyprus over 11 years (1998-2008), Tumori 2015","url":"https://doi.org/10.5301/tj.5000204"}],"tags":[],"related":["cancer-registries-surveillance"],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["cyprus-health-insurance-organisation","bank-of-cyprus-oncology-centre"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Nicosia","country":"CY","lat":35.16,"lng":33.346,"institutionType":"government","programs":[]},"route":"/institutions/cyprus-cancer-registry/","neighbours":{"technology":[{"id":"cancer-registries-surveillance","kind":"technology","name":"Cancer registries and population surveillance","route":"/technologies/cancer-registries-surveillance/"}],"institution":[{"id":"bank-of-cyprus-oncology-centre","kind":"institution","name":"Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre","route":"/institutions/bank-of-cyprus-oncology-centre/"},{"id":"cyprus-health-insurance-organisation","kind":"institution","name":"Οργανισμός Ασφάλισης Υγείας (Health Insurance Organisation, Cyprus)","route":"/institutions/cyprus-health-insurance-organisation/"}]}}