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 …

STUDY OBJECTIVE--To study differences between various methods of estimating cancer
risk in individuals. DESIGN--Information was obtained from a cancer registry. Lifetime risk …

Capture-recapture methods are increasingly employed to correct for underascertainment of
cases in disease monitoring. Routine systems of disease monitoring, such as morbidity …

A pilot study was carried out in the province of Verona, in the north-east of Italy, in order to
assess the feasibility of establishing a population-based cancer registry in the area. The …

cannot replace the other two epidemiological ent populations in different time intervals and at
Page 1 Schouten, Strataman, Kienieney, Verbeek cidence rates. Feuer et al recently …