Childhood Cancer Research Group

Welcome to the Website of the Childhood Cancer Research Group

The Childhood Cancer Research Group (CCRG) is based in the University of Oxford. It is administratively part of the University Department of Paediatrics and currently housed in The Richards Building on the Old Road Campus in Headington, Oxford. The group's core funding comes principally from the Department of Health and from the Scottish Executive. From October 2007 additional Programme Grant Funding from the medical research charity, Children with Leukaemia has been obtained.

The CCRG houses the National Registry of Childhood Tumours (NRCT), a population based register of malignancies and benign brain tumours diagnosed in children (less than 15 years of age), and domiciled in England, Wales or Scotland at the time of diagnosis. It is probably the largest childhood cancer registry in the world.

The CCRG is built around the NRCT; its principal tasks are:

• to use the NRCT data to fulfil the basic public health functions of a cancer registry through description and analyses of trends and distributions of cancer incidence, mortality and survival, and to distribute NRCT data to potential users who make legitimate requests, within the constraints to release to which the CCRG is subject
• to undertake a variety of more complex national and international research studies. Many of these are undertaken collaboratively with others outside the CCRG, and they include the descriptive, analytical and genetic epidemiology of childhood cancer, studies of medical care and outcomes in those in whom it is diagnosed, and the preventive/policy measures by which childhood cancer occurrence might be reduced.

The CCRG has a Scientific Advisory Group which will meet yearly to provide a forum for discussion about its activities and research.