The Northern Territory Cancer Register is a register of all NT residents diagnosed with cancer, which is maintained by the Northern Territory Cancer Registry, a population based cancer registry administered by the NT Department of Health.

The Northern Territory Cancer Registry collects a minimum dataset for each newly diagnosed case of reportable cancer, and updates the case record with further cancer-related information, as required, for the rest of the person’s life.

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The functions of the NT Cancer Registry are to provide reliable cancer statistics to inform cancer control programs in the areas of prevention, screening, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care, and to assist in monitoring and evaluating the impact of these programs.

Northern Territory state data

NT Cancer (Registration) Act 2009

NT Cancer (Registration) Regulations 2010