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The National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS), part of Public Health England (PHE), is the population-based cancer registry for England. It collects, quality assures and analyses data on all people living in England who are diagnosed with malignant and pre-malignant neoplasms, with national coverage since 1971. It produces the national cancer registration dataset for England. The primary role of NCRAS is to provide near real-time, cost-effective, comprehensive data collection and quality assurance over the entire cancer care pathway. To achieve this, it receives data from across the National Health Service (NHS). There are around 300 000 malignant tumours diagnosed each year in England, for which NCRAS receives about 25 million records (Figure 1). These records are submitted by 162 health care providers, which incorporate over 1700 multidisciplinary teams (MDTs). MDTs are groups of professionals with expertise in different disciplines, whose remit is to assess relevant information about the patient and their cancer and make diagnosis and treatment recommendations; they are fundamental to cancer services in England.