The Registry in Cancer Control

Some uses of the cancer registry in cancer control.

LOCAL HOSPITAL REGISTRY.-At one end of the scale is the local registry serving just one hospital. This type, which is found in an increasing number of cancer hospitals all over the world, has as its essential element a file of all cancer patients seen, and its main functions are to ensure that case records contain sufficiently detailed information on site, type, stage of the disease, and treatm...

Cancer control and the Central Cancer Registry of North Carolina.

the study of aaag repeat polymorphism in promoter of errg gene and its association with the risk of breast cancer in isfahan region

چکیده: سرطان پستان دومین عامل مرگ مرتبط با سرطان در خانم ها است. از آنجا که سرطان پستان یک تومور وابسته به هورمون است، می تواند توسط وضعیت هورمون های استروئیدی شامل استروژن و پروژسترون تنظیم شود. استروژن نقش مهمی در توسعه و پیشرفت سرطان پستان ایفا می کند و تاثیر خود را روی بیان ژن های هدف از طریق گیرنده های استروژن اعمال می کند. اما گروه دیگری از گیرنده های هسته ای به نام گیرنده های مرتبط به ا...

Quality control at the population-based cancer registry

All cancer registries should be able to give some objective indication of the quality of the data that they have collected. The methods available were described in an early IARC Technical Report (Parkin et al., 1994) and updated in a pair of papers in 2009 (Parkin and Bray, 2009; Bray and Parkin, 2009). They describe four dimensions of quality: comparability, validity, timeliness, and completen...

Registry-based case-control study of cancer in California firefighters.

BACKGROUND There is no consensus whether firefighters are at increased cancer risk for particular cancers. Previous studies have been small, mostly investigated cancer mortality, and suggested increased risks for brain, bladder, testicular, prostate, thyroid and colo-rectal cancers, leukemia, and melanoma. METHODS Records of all male cancers registered in California during 1988-2003 were obta...