Cancer registries have fundamental roles in cancer surveillance, research, and health services planning, monitoring and evaluation. Many are now assuming a broader role by contributing data for health-service management, alongside data inputs from other registries and administrative data sets. These data are being integrated into de-identified databases using privacy-protecting data linkage pra...

Abstract Background Hospital-based cancer registries were developed to describe and improve clinical care for patients. We described the hospital-based registry coverage as a reference users, including researchers, policymakers clinicians. Methods The was defined proportion of new cases registered in National Cancer Registry denominator. To examine respective types, age groups prefecture regist...

In cancer epidemiology, prospective approaches are very important both in testing etiological hypotheses and in evaluating preventive procedures. Prospective studies, however, are very difficult and expensive, because a large number of people and a long period of observation are necessary for a satisfactory study. As a data source for follow-up studies, population-based cancer registry is very ...

Because few studies have assessed the accuracy of lung cancer histologic diagnoses reported by state cancer registries, we examined whether the Iowa Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Cancer Registry (i.e., the Iowa Cancer Registry)-reported lung cancer histologic diagnoses were reliable. We investigated agreement between lung cancer histologic types reported for 413 patients with lung...

Background: Registries of individuals at risk for hereditary cancer syndromes are an invaluable resource for cancer research, yet little is known about the predictors of enrollment in hereditary cancer registries. We sought to identify the factors that characterize individuals who enroll versus those who decline participation in a Familial Cancer Registry (FCR). We also sought to identify the f...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have suggested an increased risk of cancer among patients with scleroderma. OBJECTIVE To study a population based cohort of patients with scleroderma in South Australia. METHODS Subjects with scleroderma were identified from the South Australian Scleroderma Registry established in 1993. All subjects on the scleroderma registry were linked to the South Australian ...

Background Public Health Law requires that all physicians, dentists, laboratories, and other health care providers report every case of cancer or malignant disease to the Cancer Registry of the New York State Health Department (NYSDOH). Since the 1980’s, the NYSDOH has been publishing county, state and upstate reports that contain five year average annual incidence (newly diagnosed cases) and m...

OBJECTIVES To investigate data agreement of cancer registries and medical records as well as the quality of care and assess their relationship in a 5-year period from 2006 to 2011. METHODS The present cross-sectional, descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 443 cases summarized through census and using a checklist. Data agreement of Nemazi hospital-based cancer registry and the breast c...