Background and aims: Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignant and papillary cancer and three times more prevalent in women than men. The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence rate and trend of thyroid cancer in Iranian population. Methods: National incidence was rated by Iran National Cancer Registry data derived from Iran’s annual national cancer registration reported f...

A population-based cancer registry has been used for the planning and evaluation of cancer control activities based on administration and the care of individual cancer patients by those in the medical profession. The Japanese Breast Cancer Society (JBCS) registry was started in 1975. In 2004, the registry system was moved to a new system using web registration with the cooperation of the Non-Pr...

INTRODUCTION This study evaluated the data completeness in the registration of prostate cancer after robotic radical prostatectomy (RRP) in the Urological Cancer Registry at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH), and its compliance to the international standards of US Commission on Cancer (CoC). MATERIALS AND METHODS A certified cancer registrar reviewed all RRP cases between June 2003 and Jul...

Background Algorithms aimed at replacing the manual decision-making process, usually carried out by registry personnel on ad hoc registry forms, were first introduced in the early 1970s by the Ontario Cancer Registry (OCR). The forms containing the information on cancer patients were coded and computerized at the OCR and subsequently treated by software developed by the OCR for this purpose. Al...

Introduction: Each year, 10 million people are faced with cancer and about 6 million of them die throughout the world. This study aimed at investigating the geographical distribution of cancer and its environmental risk factors in Iran. Methods: The present study was mapping the available data collected from the reports of Iranian Center for Disease Control (Cancer Bureau) regarding the frequen...

BACKGROUND Cancer registry can be a very important component of health information system in developing countries. Routine collection of data and ongoing monitoring of their quality can have a crucial role in priority setting and evidence-based policy making for controlling cancers and trends follow-up in low and middle-income countries. Evaluation of cancer registered data consists of four imp...

Cancer Registries record cancer data by reading and interpreting pathology cancer specimen reports. For some Registries this can be a manual process, which is labour and time intensive and subject to errors. A system for automatic extraction of cancer data from HL7 electronic free-text pathology reports has been proposed to improve the workflow efficiency of the Cancer Registry. The system is c...

CARTools, a toolbox designed to support population-based cancer registries, is currently being developed at OFFIS, an institute for computer science. The first application area of this toolbox is the registry being established in Lower-Saxony, a federal state of Germany. CARLOS (Cancer Registry Lower-Saxony) is the name of the corresponding project, started in 1993. The CARTools comprise four t...

A remarkable finding is that Kerala’s capital Trivandrum has the highest crude (CR) cancer incidence rate (except Aizwal, North East) in India. Aim of this study was to create density map of all cancers together and common cancers by gender in Trivandrum. Cancer registry incidence data from Trivandrum Taluk for the year 2012 and Geographic Information System (GIS) were used. Incidence data was ...