BACKGROUND Cancer registries help to decrease the burden of cancers by collecting accurate and complete data. We aimed to measure the completeness of coverage of information recorded between 2000 and 2009 in a cancer registry program in Fars province, southern Iran. METHODS The cancer registry program run by Shiraz University of Medical Sciences was investigated in two periods: pathology-base...

The quality of the cancer database in a cancer registry rests not only upon the quality of its sources of information but also upon the registration techniques adopted by the cancer registration team. If these techniques follow the international rules of cancer registration, populations may be compared with confidence. This chapter describes the variation between registries in the methods used ...

Background: The effect of race and ethnicity on some kind of malignant bone tumors including Ewing sarcomahas been proven in different studies. In order to evaluate the latter, national cancer registries may help to increaseunderstanding about potential cancer causes, prevention and control strategies, and apply these findings to controlhealth problems among populations with s...

OBJECTIVE To measure the reliability of data collected by the Thames cancer registry and to identify factors in the registration process affecting reliability. DESIGN A retrospective study of data from the registry, including death certificate only registrations, and hospital case notes on cases of colorectal cancer diagnosed in 1983 or 1988. SETTING Four districts in South Thames region. ...

BACKGROUND Population-based patterns of care studies are important for monitoring cancer care but conducting them is expensive and resource-intensive. Linkage of routinely collected administrative health data may provide an efficient alternative. Our aim was to determine the accuracy of linked routinely collected administrative data for monitoring prostate cancer care in New South Wales (NSW), ...

The object of this study was to assess the relative risks of cancer for a particular branch of industry by using the newly created cancer environment registry. The registry was created by a record linkage of the 1960 census to the Swedish Cancer Registry 1961-73. A cohort study was undertaken of all subjects classified in the census as working in the electronics or electrical manufacturing indu...

The incidence rate of central nervous system tumors in the USA is 14.8/100,000 people per year.1 Within these, the malignant CNS tumors are accountable for at least 12,760 deaths for the year 2005 (1). The CNS tumors incidence in the USA is associated with male gender, Caucasian race, metropolitan area residents, and the elderly population (2). CNS tumor incidence in the USA has been studied an...

BACKGROUND Changes in cancer care have increased the importance of cancer registries in monitoring trends and outcomes. Registries are increasingly using computerised systems, such as patient administration and histopathology, as data sources. Omissions by registries can cause interpretation errors, but use of multiple data sources can overcome this. METHODS Registrations of new colorectal ca...

With an estimated 21 million people, Pakistan is a heavily populated, developing nation. The general population's lack of awareness, unclean lifestyle, and unsanitary circumstances in populated regions are the main causes Pakistan's endemic prevalence various infectious non-communicable diseases. Studies on incidence cancer extremely rare. Only Karachi Lahore previously had registers, but 2015 ...