The Scottish Cancer Registration scheme has been managed by ISD since 1997 and has been collecting information on cancer since 1958. The data are used for a wide variety of purposes which include: public health surveillance; health needs assessment, planning and commissioning cancer services; evaluation of the impact of interventions on incidence and survival; clinical audit and health services research; epidemiological studies; and providing information to support genetic counselling and health promotion.

The Cancer statistics pages provide a wide range of statistical analyses based on data from the Scottish Cancer Registry and the General Register Office for Scotland. In addition, published reports are produced periodically and are available at Cancer reports.

There are three Cancer screening programmes in Scotland ( bowel, breast and cervical ) and analytical support for the evaluation and monitoring of these programmes is provided by ISD Scotland. ISD also provides a support service for Clinical trials for cancer and facilitates National cancer audits.

On 29 May 2007 an update of cancer incidence in Scotland was published including information on cancer registrations from 1980 to 2004. Links to updated files are available and all files can be found by cancer site below. The Statistical Publication Notice, which includes interpretation of the updated data, is also available.

Cancer statistics

General information and a variety of detailed statistical analyses are available:

All cancer types	Childhood, adolescent & young adult cancer
Cancer site data
Bladder	Liver
Bone and connective tissue	Lung and mesothelioma
Brain and CNS	Male genital organs
Breast	Multiple myeloma
Colorectal	Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Female genital organs	Oesophagus
Head & neck	Pancreas
Hodgkin's disease	Skin
Kidney	Stomach
Leukaemia