EUROCHIP is an intellectual work involving all those that may contribute with their competence:

• To develop a comprehensive list of health indicators useful for monitoring cancer in the countries of the European Union.  The list will include variables on the prevalence of risk factors, pre-clinic activity, cancer occurrence, clinical follow-up, cancer recurrences, patient survival, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, effectiveness of cancer care, outcome and care prevalence. The list will include a huge set of socio-economic, demographic, and health-related variables that will be useful in controlling cancer

• To indicate standardised methods for collecting, checking and validating the data and to propose methods, procedures and techniques to analyse the results and make them available.