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 …

Introduction: Cancer Registry is one of the important components of health information
systems in developing countries. Continuous monitoring of data quality can have a crucial …

Completeness is an important indicator of data quality in cancer registry programs. This
study aimed to estimate the completeness of registered cases in a population based cancer …

Background and Objective: The incidence of cancer is rising in Iran, and hence it is
important to assess the accuracy of the Iranian cancer registry dataset. In this study, the …

Introduction: Control of cancer as the third cause of death is a health priority in IRAN. In the
last decade, different cancer registries launched to estimate the incidence of cancer in IRAN …

Introduction: Previous evaluations revealed that cancer registration in Iran is not functioning
appropriately and a reform is needed. We evaluated cancer registries in 18 countries and …

Background The cancer registry system is an important part of the cancer control program.
Improper coding of cancers leads to misclassification and incorrect statistical information …

BACKGROUND: CANCER REGISTRY can be a very important component of health
information system in developing countries. Routine collection of data and ongoing …

CANCER REGISTRY is an important tool for any successful cancer control program. The first
formal cancer related data from IRAN were published in 1956. In 1969, observations …

Background: Cancer registries are important infrastructure for cancer control programs.
However most developing countries lack population based cancer registry. In Iran there …