Only deaths in Great Britain from mesothelioma are included in the register. Death certificates with mesothelioma listed on any part of the certificate are sent to the Epidemiology and Medical Statistic Unit. Supplementary sources of information include cancer registrations received via OPCS from the regional cancer registers. They are used to complement and check the completeness of OPCS data. Annual figures for death due to mesothelioma are published in the Health and Safety Statistics Report, supplement of the Employment Gazette, February 1989.
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Users are required to make their results anonymous. In response to reports of the association between asbestos exposure and mesothelioma the Advisory Panel to Her Majesty's senior Medical Inspector recommended the establishment of a national mesothelioma register. This register was set up in 1967. These registers record deaths in Great Britain where the death certificate includes a specially defined disease. The Mesothelioma register is the most important one, and so we focus on it here.