{"entity":{"id":"federal-statistical-office-ch","kind":"institution","name":"Swiss Federal Statistical Office (BFS/OFS)","aka":["BFS","OFS","UST","FSO","Bundesamt für Statistik","Office fédéral de la statistique","Nationale Krebsstatistik","NKS"],"tldr":"The federal statistics office, which publishes Switzerland's official cancer numbers every year from the registry data, and a full cancer report every five years.","summary":"The Federal Statistical Office runs the National Cancer Statistics (Nationale Krebsstatistik): incidence estimated from the cantonal registries' data pooled by the NKRS, and mortality from its own cause-of-death statistics. Its key figures for 2022, updated on 10 November 2025, are 28,141 new cancers in men and 22,693 in women, excluding non-melanoma skin cancer, and 9,310 and 7,910 cancer deaths; cancer accounted for 25.5 per cent of deaths in men and 20.8 per cent in women. Rates are standardised to the 1976 European population, and the office publishes world-standardised rates too in its open data on the Swiss Stats Explorer.\n\nBecause registration was not national until the 2020 Act, the national figures are estimates: observed cases are weighted up by the share of the population covered by a registry, which the office's methods note gives as 55.3 per cent in 1993-1997, 91.6 per cent in 2013-2017 and 98.3 per cent in 2018-2022. The French- and Italian-speaking cantons have been fully covered since 2006 and all German-speaking cantons since 2020. The office also publishes the Swiss Cancer Report every five years; the latest, of 2021, gives relative five-year survival for 2013-2017 of 63.8 per cent in men and 67.1 per cent in women.","asOf":"2026-11-03","links":[{"label":"BFS: Nationale Krebsstatistik (German)","url":"https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/gesundheit/gesundheitszustand/krankheiten/krebs.html"},{"label":"BFS: Kennzahlen zu Krebs, 2020-2022 (XLSX)","url":"https://dam-api.bfs.admin.ch/hub/api/dam/assets/36582275/master"},{"label":"BFS: Methoden der nationalen Krebsstatistik (PDF, 2026)","url":"https://dam-api.bfs.admin.ch/hub/api/dam/assets/36531516/master"},{"label":"Schweizerischer Krebsbericht 2021 (PDF)","url":"https://dam-api.bfs.admin.ch/hub/api/dam/assets/19305696/master"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":["prevention"],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["nkrs-nicer"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Neuchâtel","country":"CH","lat":46.996,"lng":6.938,"institutionType":"government","website":"https://www.bfs.admin.ch","programs":["National Cancer Statistics (annual monitoring)","Swiss Cancer Report (five-yearly)","Cause-of-death statistics","Open data on stats.swiss"]},"route":"/institutions/federal-statistical-office-ch/","neighbours":{"section":[{"id":"prevention","kind":"section","name":"Prevention & Risk","route":"/fronts/prevention/"}],"institution":[{"id":"nkrs-nicer","kind":"institution","name":"National Agency for Cancer Registration (NKRS) / NICER","route":"/institutions/nkrs-nicer/"}],"paper":[{"id":"paper-menges-prostate-cancer-switzerland-jama-netw-open-2026","kind":"paper","name":"Prostate cancer incidence, mortality, and survival in Switzerland","route":"/key-papers/paper-menges-prostate-cancer-switzerland-jama-netw-open-2026/"}]}}