To establish and operate a network, comprising primary data providers (European Cancer registries) and organizations with experience in coordination, collection, quality control, standardization, processing and dissemination of data, to provide with updated and standardized indicators of cancer. The objective of EUNICE is to compile, compare, analys, interprete and disseminate information relevant for monitoring of the status of cancer burden in the European populations, planning and evaluation of cancer control measures at national and EU level.