Health

#2025-596Law Establishing a National Cancer Registry

🇫🇷France··Other·High Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

The law modifies public health code to create a national cancer registry responsible for collecting and centralizing population data related to cancer epidemiology and care. This registry aims to improve prevention, screening, diagnosis, and patient management for cancer. It is managed by the National Cancer Institute, which processes strictly necessary personal data for research and public health purposes.

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Key Changes

  • Modification of article L. 1415-2 to include the national cancer registry and user representatives.
  • Inclusion of the term 'labeling' in the designation process.
  • Establishment of the national cancer registry under article L. 1415-2-1 to centralize cancer-related data.

Obligations

What this law requires

high

The National Cancer Institute (Institut national du cancer) must act as the data controller for the National Cancer Registry and be responsible for data processing (responsable du traitement des données)

Institut national du cancer
operational
high

The National Cancer Institute must centralize population data relating to cancer epidemiology and care within the National Cancer Registry

Institut national du cancer
operational
high

The National Cancer Institute must collect and process only strictly necessary personal data (données à caractère personnel strictement nécessaires) to accomplish its missions

Institut national du cancer
operational
medium

The National Cancer Institute must make collected data available to public and private organizations for cancer research, studies, and evaluations

Institut national du cancer
disclosure
medium

The National Cancer Institute must make collected data available to the National Public Health Agency (Agence nationale de santé publique) for fulfilling its missions

Institut national du cancer
disclosure

Affected Parties

National Cancer InstitutePublic and private research organizations

Tags

cancer,registry,public health