Data and statistics

Statistics Bank

The Cancer Registry of Norway's statistics bank contains statistics on cancer in Norway up to and including the latest available year of diagnosis. The statistics can be broken down by various factors such as different diagnostic groups, gender, age groups, periods, and geographical units. The statistics bank consists of various statistics:

• Incidence table
• Incidence maps
• Incidence figures
• Prevalence tables
• Prevalence figures
• Survival statistics

The time it takes for the results to appear depends on the choices you have made in the query. The more choices/groupings, the longer it will take for the results to appear. All statistics displayed in the solution are anonymous.

Metadata

The Cancer Registry of Norway's metadata – ELVIS (Electronic List of Variables In Systems) contains information about the Cancer Registry of Norway's data content.

You can search for information about a specific variable, see which variables are available for different categories (e.g., diagnosis or treatment), or see which variables are available for specific cancer types or in the cancer specific medical quality registries.

You can also create a variable list that can be downloaded, download value sets/codebooks, or apply for data delivery from the Janus Serum Bank.

Cancer in Norway

The Cancer Registry of Norway publishes annually Cancer in Norway, which contains incidence, prevalence, relative survival and mortality for cancer in Norway. Here you will find a variety of ready-made tables and figures that can be freely used.

Medical quality Registries

The Cancer Registry of Norway administrates nine medical quality registries, and each registry publishes reports every autumn containing statistics at the company level.

All the national medical quality registries also publish results on a separate aggregate page.

Data delivery from the Cancer Registry of Norway

If you are looking for statistics that are not published in Cancer in Norway, the annual reports from the quality registries, the Cancer Registry of Norway's statistics bank, or any of the other sources mentioned above, you can apply to have this data delivered through the Cancer Registry of Norway's Data Delivery Unit. Questions or feedback regarding errors or deficiencies can be directed to datautlevering@fhi.no.

For health trusts

In addition to this, the Cancer Registry of Norway offers administrative and clinical statistics for institutions that report to the registry, which are available through login to KREMT (Cancer Registry's Electronic Reporting Service).

Other tools

The Cancer Registry provides statistics to several online statistical portals. Incidence, survival, mortality, prevalence, and projections for all Nordic countries can be found in NORDCAN.

NORDCAN is managed by the Nordic countries through the Association of Nordic Cancer Registries (ANCR) and funded by the Nordic Cancer Union (NCU).

Statistics on cancer incidence are available at the European level in the European Cancer Information System (ECIS), which is managed by the EU's Joint Research Center (JRC) and the EU's Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE).

Worldwide, cancer incidence statistics are available in  Globocan (Cancer Today), which is managed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the WHO's cancer research institute.

Kreftlex provides a wealth of information about cancer diseases, and the statistics displayed are sourced from the Cancer Registry. The pages were developed by the Institute for Cancer Genetics and Informatics at Oslo University Hospital.

Erratum for statistics in the Cancer Registry of Norway's statistics bank

In the version available from May 2025 to May 2026: The map incidence statistics for Sula municipality was over-estimated for the period 1975-1984. The error had the biggest impact on rare cancers. 

In the version available from May 6, 2026 to June 17, 2026: Age-stratified statistics (using the age "splitter") counted to few cancer cases for one of the age groups.

These errors have been corrected in the current version.

The Cancer Registry of Norway's statistics bank