About ECRIC
The Eastern Cancer Registration and Information Centre (ECRIC) registers all malignant tumours and some pre-cancerous lesions occurring in people resident in East Anglia at the time of diagnosis.
The centre's records are held on computer from 1971, although there are manual records going back to the 1960's in Cambridge and earlier in Norwich. In total about 500,000 records are held.
Until 2004, ECRIC was known as the East Anglian Cancer Registry, which was officially created in 1989 by amalgamation of the cancer registration bureaux in Cambridge, Norwich and Ipswich. However, data are available for the whole of the East Anglian Region from these bureaux from 1961.
In 1994 the East Anglian and Oxford Regional Health Authorities (RHA) were merged, but the registries stayed separate. At the time of the merger, the county of Bedfordshire was transferred from North Thames RHA to the Anglia and Oxford RHA and from 1996 the ECRIC data includes those cases from Bedfordshire. From 2006 ECRIC took on Hertfordshire and Essex from Thames Cancer Registry.
This has increased the registry population from 2.8 million to approx 5.5 million. This also means that the ECRIC boundaries will be co-terminous with the East of England Government Office Region.
ECRIC is based at in Cambridge at Unit C Magog Court (see our location page), there are also additional registration staff based in Ipswich, Norwich, Colchester, Basildon, Hemel Hempstead, Watford and Southend Hospitals.