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Evaluation of data quality in the cancer registry: Principles and methods Part II. Completeness.

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This second instalment of a two-part review of data quality methods at the cancer registry focuses on the principles and techniques available for estimating completeness, separating methods into those that are semi-quantitative -- in that they give an indication of the degree of completeness relative to other registries or over time, and more quantitative techniques -- those that provide a numerical evaluation.
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This article is published in European Journal of Cancer.The article was published on 2009-03-01. It has received 417 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cancer registry & Population.

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The clinical perspective on malignancies in renal transplanted patients

TL;DR: This thesis investigated malignancies in renal transplanted patients from a clinical viewpoint and found that the use of regional tumours in patients with post-transplant malignancy is a viable treatment option.
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Incidence and mortality of lung cancer in 2018 and the temporal trends from 2010 to 2018 in Henan province, China: a population-based registry study

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper estimated the epidemic status and temporal trend of lung cancer in Henan province, China, using the qualified data obtained from the Henan Provincial Central Cancer Registry of China covering 30.51% of the whole population.
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The Quality of Cancer Registries Data Has to Become 'Liquid'

TL;DR: Single and multiple sources of information may be fruitfully used to produce meaningful information in the process incidence fulfilment is ongoing to accurately estimated the burden of incident breast cancers.
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A spatial assessment of prostate cancer mortality-to-incidence ratios among South Carolina veterans: 1999-2015.

TL;DR: In this paper, the mortality-to-incidence ratio (MIR) in South Carolina's (SC) veteran population was calculated for all SC ZCTAs and by key patient and neighborhood-level risk factors for PrCA.
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Cancer Incidence in Five Continents

TL;DR: The aim of this study was to establish a database of histological groups and to provide a level of consistency and quality of data that could be applied in the design of future registries.
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Data quality at the Cancer Registry of Norway: An overview of comparability, completeness, validity and timeliness

TL;DR: The routines in place at the CRN yields comparable data that can be considered reasonably accurate, close-to-complete and timely, thereby justifying the policy of the reporting of annual incidence one year after the year of diagnosis.
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Cancer incidence in five continents, vol. VI

TL;DR: Africa, Central and South, and Caribbean Argentina, Chaco 11 0.5 0.4 0.17 0.02 Chile, Concepcion 6 0.2 0.06 0.03 Brazil, Aracaju 4 0.3 0.05 0.01 0.04 0 − *Brazil, Goiânia 17 0.6 0.24 0.08 0.07 0.09 *South Africa, Eastern Cape 5 0.1 0.11 0
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