Cancer is a growing global health issue and many low or medium resource countries are ill-
prepared to deal with the ever-increasing cancer burden owing to lack of well-developed …

Survival refers to the life of a person after diagnosis of disease, and survival studies have the
objective ofevaluating the overall performance of a group of patients in terms of quality and …

OBJECTIVE: To measure the bias in absolute cancer survival estimates in the absence of
active follow-up of cancer patients in developing countries. METHODS: Included in the study …

Population-based cancer survival data, a key indicator for monitoring progress against
cancer, are reported from 27 population-based cancer registries in 14 countries in Africa …

Background Population-based cancer survival data, a key indicator for monitoring progress
against cancer, are not widely available from countries in Africa, Asia, and Central America …

Results. The gap between four survival curves widens with time; after ten years of follow up
the difference increases to more than 10 percent points between the highest (hybrid) and the …

Background. Estimation of survival requires follow-up of patients from diagnosis until death
ensuring complete and good quality data. Many population-based cancer registries in low …

Adequate and complete follow-up is a prerequisite for the conduct of any survival study.
Passive follow-up relies on routine availability of mortality data through unique data linkage …

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 …