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Colorectal cancer linkage on chromosomes 4q21, 8q13, 12q24, and 15q22 [PDF]

, 2012
A substantial proportion of familial colorectal cancer (CRC) is not a consequence of known susceptibility loci, such as mismatch repair (MMR) genes, supporting the existence of additional loci.
Allyson S Templeton, Brenda Diergaarde, Brooke L Fridley, Colon CFR, D Timothy Bishop, Daniel Buchanan, Daniel J Serie, Duncan C Thomas, Ellen L Goode, Finlay A Macrae, Fredrick Schumacher, Graeme P Young, Graham Casey, H Banfield Younghusband, Ingrid Winship, Jane S Green, Joanne P Young, John D Potter, John L Hopper, Julie M Cunningham, Loic Le Marchand, Mark A Jenkins, Melissa S DeRycke, Mine S Cicek, Noralane M Lindor, Polly A Newcomb, Robert W Haile, Roger C Green, Stephen N Thibodeau, Steven Gallinger, Susan Parry, Theodore G Krontiris, William R Bamlet, Zhu Chen   +33 more
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Projecting prevalence by stage of care for prostate cancer and estimating future health service needs: protocol for a modelling study [PDF]

, 2016
Introduction Current strategies for the management of prostate cancer are inadequate in Australia. We will, in this study, estimate current service needs and project the future needs for prostate cancer patients in Australia.
Clements, M. S., McHugh, B., O'Connell, D. L., Patel, M. I., Smith, D. P., Yu, X. Q.   +5 more
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Age-standardized expected years of life lost: quantification of cancer severity

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background The critical implications of the expected years of life lost (EYLL) index of cancer for health policy assessments have been largely overlooked. We advocate to standardize life lost indices.
Yueh Wang, Chun-Ju Chiang, Wen-Chung Lee
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Lung cancer epidemiology in North Sardinia, Italy [PDF]

, 2013
Background The aim of this study was to analyze and describe the epidemiological characteristics and trends of lung cancer in North Sardinia, Italy, in the period 1992–2010.
Attene, Federico, Budroni, Mario, Cesaraccio, Rosaria, Cossu, Antonio, Paliogiannis, Panagiotis, Palmieri, Giuseppe, Tanda, Francesco, Trignano, Mario   +7 more
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Az Országos Gyermektumor Regiszter jelentősége a gyermekonkológiai ellátásban. [PDF]

, 2014
National Childhood Cancer Registry has been operated since 1971 by the Hungarian Paediatric Oncology Network. This Registry collects data on epidemiology, treatment modalities and effectiveness, as well as late follow-up of childhood cancers.
Garami, Miklós, Jakab, Zsuzsanna, Schuler, Dezső   +2 more
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Time trends in survival and causes of death in multiple myeloma: a population-based study from Germany

BMC Cancer, 2023
Background Steady evolution of therapies has improved prognosis of patients with multiple myeloma (MM) over the past two decades. Yet, knowledge about survival trends and causes of death in MM might play a crucial role in long-term management of this ...
Christine Eisfeld, Hiltraud Kajüter, Lennart Möller, Ina Wellmann, Evgenii Shumilov, Andreas Stang   +5 more
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The relative risk of second primary cancers in Switzerland: a population-based retrospective cohort study

BMC Cancer, 2020
Background More people than ever before are currently living with a diagnosis of cancer and the number of people concerned is likely to continue to rise. Cancer survivors are at risk of developing a second primary cancer (SPC).
Anita Feller, Katarina L. Matthes, Andrea Bordoni, Christine Bouchardy, Jean-Luc Bulliard, Christian Herrmann, Isabelle Konzelmann, Manuela Maspoli, Mohsen Mousavi, Sabine Rohrmann, Katharina Staehelin, Volker Arndt, the NICER Working Group   +12 more
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The experience of accommodating privacy restrictions during implementation of a large-scale surveillance study of an osteoporosis medication. [PDF]

, 2016
PurposeTo explore whether privacy restrictions developed to protect patients have complicated research within a 15-year surveillance study conducted with US cancer registries.MethodsData from enrolling 27 cancer registries over a 10-year period were ...
Andrews, Elizabeth B, Deapen, Dennis M, Gilsenan, Alicia W, Harris, David H, Hornicek, Francis J, Midkiff, Kirk D, Schymura, Maria J   +6 more
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Incidence of advanced-stage breast cancer in regular participants of a mammography screening program: a prospective register-based study

BMC Cancer, 2020
Background The European Guidelines for breast cancer screening suggest that the impact of population-based mammography screening programmes (MSP) may be assessed using the relative reduction in the incidence of advanced breast cancer (ABC, that is, stage
Laura Khil, Jan Heidrich, Ina Wellmann, Vanessa Kääb-Sanyal, Stefanie Weigel, Walter Heindel, Hans-Werner Hense, Oliver Heidinger   +7 more
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Quality Assurance and Continuing Education: A Cyclic Approach for Maintaining High Quality Data in a High Volume Cancer Registry

Cancer Control, 2020
Quality Assurance and Education are 2 areas of the Cancer Registry that go hand in hand. High-quality data can only be maintained through routine surveillance of data quality coupled with tailored continuing education of certified tumor registrars (CTRs).
Vicki Hawhee MEd, CTR, Jennie Jones MSHI-HA, CHDA, CTR, Sandy Stewart CTR, Kristin Lucia CTR, Dana E. Rollison PhD   +4 more
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