Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR) has signed a collaboration agreement with Universitat de Valencia (UV) to promote the use of the Spanish Register of Child Cancer Tumors (RNTI-SEHOP) and to develop scientific projects in the field of cancer during childhood. The projects will led by Dr. Sánchez de Toledo, head of the Translational Research in Child Cancer group at VHIR, and Dr. Rafael Peris Bonet, director of RNTI-SEHOP. The Spanish Register of Child Cancer Tumors, located in the Valencian university, was founded with the aim to do develop epidemiologic research in order to improve the assistance to children with cancer, to follow up the situation of child cancer in Spain and to study the causes of this pathology. With this agreement, both parts are committed to make the most of the data which offers this register for the identification of areas for potential improvement in child cancer and for the development of survival studies and incidence of cancer in Spain, compared to other countries. The agreement will also support the execution of projects and programs of research in child cancer, as well as the exchange of researchers in joint projects and the organization of activities to promote the research in this field.The collaboration agreement was signed on Monday in the Valencian university, by VHIR’s director, Dr. Joan X. Comella, and UV’s university president, Dr. Esteban Morcillo.