The US Associated Pacific Island Nations (USAPIN) are developing cancer data and surveillance infrastructure as a component of their comprehensive cancer control plans. Various cancer registry systems were assessed for adaptability, sustainability, and technical feasibility in resource limited, relatively small island populations. Many jurisdictions lack systematic cancer data collection or cod...

Monitoring of progress in cancer patient survival by cancer registries should be as up-to-date as possible. Period analysis has been shown to provide more up-to-date survival estimates than do traditional methods of survival analysis. However, there is a trade-off between up-to-dateness and the precision of period estimates, in that increasing the up-to-dateness of survival estimates by restric...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: HPV: Human Papillomavirus; HBV: Hepatitis B Viruses; HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus; HHV8: Human Herpesvirus-8; IARC: International Agency for Research on Cancer; KCR: Kampala Cancer Registry; EARN: East African Registry; INCTR: International Network For Cancer Treatment And Research; UICC: International Union Against Cancer; NIH: ...

background: cancer is a major public health problem in the world. in iran especially after a transition to a dynamic and urban community, the pattern of cancer has changed significantly. an important change occurred regarding the incidence of cancer at the southern shores of the caspian sea, including gilan, mazandaran and golestan province. this study was designed it investigate the epidemiolo...

Long-term survival rates are the most commonly used outcome measures for patients with cancer. However, traditional long-term survival statistics, which are derived by cohort-based types of analysis, essentially reflect the survival expectations of patients diagnosed many years ago. They are therefore often severely outdated at the time they become available. A couple of years ago, a new method...

Follow-up procedures vary among cancer registries in North America. US registries are funded by the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program and/or the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR). SEER registries ascertain vital status and date of last contact to meet follow-up standards. NPCR and Canadian registries primarily conduct linkages with local and national death re...

Setting and participants. This study examined participants in the Cancer Prevention Study II (CPS-II) Nutrition Cohort, a prospective study examining the impact of environmental and lifetyle factors on cancer incidence and mortality in 184,187 American men and women. The CPS-II Nutrition Cohort is a subgroup of the CPS-II, a prospective mortality study of 1.2 million participants established in...

OBJECTIVES To assess the quality of cancer registry in primary care. DESIGN AND SETTING A cross-sectional validation study using linked data from primary care electronic health records (EHRs) and the Netherlands Cancer Registry (NCR). POPULATION 290 000 patients, registered with 120 general practitioners (GPs), from 50 practice centres in the Utrecht area, the Netherlands, in January 2013. ...

A system we call BDRS is implemented as an integrated disease specific system for breast diseases in order to obtain and use patient health data for clinical research, cancer registry and clinical care. It is an open, flexible and modular system that supports multi-institutional and multi-viewed utilization of health data. Three-tier web based architecture, and object oriented technologies have...

The project CARLOS (Cancer Registry Lower-Saxony) developed the Epidemiological and Statistical Data Exploration System (CARESS) to support multidimensional analysis of health data. The system is based on an architecture that focuses on extensive interoperability between a database management system and several analysis and visualisation tools. As spatial and statistical aspects of the data pla...