Cancer registration

Automation in cancer registration

Background Algorithms aimed at replacing the manual decision-making process, usually carried out by registry personnel on ad hoc registry forms, were first introduced in the early 1970s by the Ontario Cancer Registry (OCR). The forms containing the information on cancer patients were coded and computerized at the OCR and subsequently treated by software developed by the OCR for this purpose. Al...

Cancer Registration Handbook

Cancer Registration in India

The cancer registration is a mechanism to collect and classify information on all cancer cases in order to produce statistics on the occurrence of cancer and to provide a framework for assessing and controlling the impact of cancer on the community. The population based cancer registries collect and process data relating to a defined geographical area while the hospital based cancer registries ...

Accuracy of cancer registration.

In South Wales cancer registration is done principally by means of the Hospital Activity Analysis. Altogether 1460 hospital records of cancer patients (19% of the 1972 registrations received by May 1973) were studied and the principal items of information required for cancer registrations by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys were copied and subsequently compared with the correspondi...

Cancer registration planning and policy.

Problems Arising from the Definition Mis-diagnosis It will almost certainly be impossible to obtain information about all cancer patients, since there will be many in whom the disease is diagnosed otherwise. Obviously, if these patients die without post-mortem examination, these errors are unlikely to come to light. Again, many patients may be registered as having cancer who, in fact, have some...