# National Cancer Center of China

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## TL;DR

The National Cancer Center is the body that counts China's cancers, sets national screening and quality programmes and publishes the country's official cancer statistics.

## Summary

Established in 2011 and hosted by the Cancer Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, the National Cancer Center runs the National Central Cancer Registry (more than 700 population-based registries), the Cancer Screening Program in Rural China and urban screening programmes, national quality control for cancer care, and the Journal of the National Cancer Center. Its 2024 report estimated about 4.8 million new cases and 2.6 million deaths in 2022 (age-standardised incidence 201.61 and mortality 96.47 per 100,000), with lung, colorectal, thyroid, liver and stomach cancers making up 57.42% of cases and mortality rates falling about 1.3% a year since 2000.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Also known as: NCC China; 国家癌症中心; National Central Cancer Registry of China
- Tags: china
- City: Beijing, CN
- Type: government
- Website: https://www.chinancpcn.org.cn/

## Sources

- National Cancer Center: https://www.chinancpcn.org.cn/
- Han B, Zheng R, Zeng H, et al. Cancer incidence and mortality in China, 2022. J Natl Cancer Cent 2024: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jncc.2024.01.006

## Connected records

- institutions: [Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences](https://onco.cc/institutions/cams-cancer-hospital/), [International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO)](https://onco.cc/institutions/iarc/), [National Healthcare Security Administration](https://onco.cc/institutions/nhsa/), [National Medical Products Administration / Center for Drug Evaluation](https://onco.cc/institutions/nmpa-cde/)
- people: [Jie He](https://onco.cc/people/he-jie/)
- bottlenecks: [Data silos](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-data-silos/), [The hardest cancers are found late](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-early-detection/)
- key papers: [Cancer incidence and mortality in China, 2022](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-han-j-natl-cancer-cent/), [Chen 2016: Cancer statistics in China, 2015](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-chen-cancer-statistics-china-2015-cacancer-2016/)

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