Cancer case ascertainment is commonly called case-finding and is the process of identifying
patients with malignant cancer who meet the inclusion criteria for a cancer registry …

Can national cancer registration support clinical databases and clinical cancer research?
The short answer is: Yes, it can. A longer version is: Yes, it can and if it cannot substantially …

Simple Summary Cancer registration has a long tradition in Germany. In 2013, new
legislation obliged all German states to implement additional clinical cancer registration …

The idea of recording information on all cancer cases in defined communities dates from the
first half of the twentieth century, and there has been a steady growth in the number of such …

Cancer registry Page 2 Recent Results in Cancer Research Fortschritte der Krebsforschung
Progres dans Ies recherches sur Ie cancer Edited by 50 VG Allfrey, New York· M. Allgower …

A survey of population‐based cancer registries in the European Community (EC) is
reported: 82 (92%) of 89 registries replied. In 3 of the 12 EC countries (Denmark …

Data on cancer are available in all countries with records of pathology examinations,
hospital admissions, and death certificates. However, the epidemiological patterns of cancer …

Background Population based cancer registration provides a critical role in disease
surveillance in terms of incidence, survival, cancer cluster investigations and prevalence …

evaluating cancer-control programs. On the other hand, to cover only selected areas may be
cost-effective, and with such coverage, it may be possible to monitor incidence at the …

Completeness of ascertainment is a central issue for any disease register. We outline the
process of cancer registration as carried out in a large population-based Registry and argue …