Completeness of cancer registration has not been consistently ascertained across different
registries. This report describes how capture-recapture methods have been used to estimate …

This book is the standard reference manual of cancer registration methodology and uses. It
provides guidelines on all aspects, such as the establishment of a registry, collection …

Capture-recapture techniques are employed increasingly to correct for underascertainment
of cases in epidemiologic surveillance. A key assumption of the basic two-source capture …

Background In this paper we investigated whether the capture-recapture method is useful for
a cancer registry to monitor its completeness of case ascertainment on a routine basis …

This chapter is not intended to replace statistical reference books. Its objective is solely to
assist those involved in cancer registration to understand the calculations necessary for the …

The completeness of cancer registration in the IKL (Integraal Kankercentrum Limburg)
cancer registry, Limburg, the Netherlands, was evaluated for the years 1988–1990 by …

The quality of cancer registry data is of great importance to the usefulness of a cancer
registry. To investigate the quality of its data the IKL cancer registry (Integraal …

We report a new method of estimating the completeness of cancer registration, in which the
proportions of unregistered patients are derived from the time distributions of three …

Abstract Van den Brandt PA (Department of Epidemiology, University of Limburg, PO Box
616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands), LJ Schouten, RA Goldbohm, E Dorant and …

Cancer registration provides core information for cancer surveillance and control. The
population-based Taiwan Cancer Registry was implemented in 1979. After the Cancer …