Implications from Under-reporting at Lifetime, Death Certificate Notifications and Trace-back on the Recorded Incidence of a âNewlyâ Established Population-based Cancer Registry
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Population-based cancer registries (CRs) are powerful tools for measuring cancer burden and progress against cancer. To provide valid measures of cancer burden, a population-based CR relies on the recording of each cancer occurring in the respective population [1– 4]. Regardless of the type of collection of cancer data (e.g. pas sive reporting which requires specially designed notification forms to be completed and sent to the CR or active reporting, if information on newly diagnosed and treated cancers is actively collected at source by registry staff), under-ascertainment of cancer cases may occur in any CR. The chance of a cancer case of being re
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Implications from Under-reporting at Lifetime, Death Certificate Notifications and Trace-back on the Recorded Incidence of a "Newly" Established Population-based Cancer Registry.
OBJECTIVES Population-based cancer registries (CRs) are powerful tools for measuring cancer burden and progress against cancer. The study's objective was to investigate the effects of under-reporting at lifetime, death certificate notifications, and trace-back on the incidence a newly established population-based CR may record during its initial 15 years of operation. METHODS Using cancer dat...
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