Background: Completeness of ascertainment is a very important aspect of cancer
registration. There is no recent published estimate for childhood cancer in Britain. Methods …

Abstract The New Zealand Cancer Registry (NZCR) is the main source of data on cancer
incidence in New Zealand. The accuracy and completeness of registration of childhood …

Population-based cancer registration plays a key role in malignant disease surveillance by
providing data needed to calculate incidence, survival, cancer cluster investigations and …

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the completeness and accuracy of notification of cancers by
the National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR) for England and Wales. DESIGN …

Background: Increases in recorded childhood cancer incidence are widely reported, but do
not necessarily represent real increases in risk. Time trends might conceal underlying steps …

Background Cancer registries play a major role in cancer control, including quantifying the
burden of cancer in the population, informing health service planning, and evaluating …

In order to assess the accuracy of Scottish cancer registration data, a random sample of
2,200 registrations, attributed to the year 1990, was generated. Relevant medical records …

STUDY OBJECTIVE--In recent years, capture-recapture methods have become increasingly
popular in estimating completeness of disease registries. This study aimed to assess the …

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 …

Abstract Merseyside and Cheshire Cancer Registry (MCCR) data quality was assessed by
applying literature-based measures to 27,942 cases diagnosed in 1990 and 1991 …