Introduction Progress in cancer prevention and treatment depends on the collection and analysis of reliable information about the incidence, risk factors, and progression of cancer in the Canadian population. Every jurisdiction in Canada has a public cancer registry, operated by a cancer agency or subsumed within another government department or ministry. These registries contain comprehensive ...

The early cancer studies on immigrants, which started to appear some 50 years ago, showed that the incidence in cancers changes to the level of the new host country in one or two generations. These findings were fundamental to the understanding of the environmental etiology of human cancer. Many immigrant groups originate from countries with no cancer registration, and, hence, the immigrant stu...

Background and Objective Genderand age-specific differences in melanoma incidence are poorly defined in the literature. The purpose of this study was to evaluate such gender-and age-related differences in melanoma incidence rates using large population-based U.S. datasets. Methods Data for this study were obtained from three cancer registries: the Cancer Surveillance Program of Orange County/Sa...

Joint replacement is currently on the rise with a high community burden. A registry was designed to evaluate the costs,possible complications, and rate of revisions as well as finding the most effective techniques, risk factors associatedwith poor results, indications for revision surgeries, and also demographic evaluation of patients undergoing jointreplacement surgery in Iran. Level of eviden...

This Fourteenth Pediatric Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation Report covers the pediatric lung transplantation and heart-lung transplantation experience from January 1986 through June 2010. During this period, 1,664 pediatric lung transplant procedures and 653 pediatric heart-lung transplant procedures were reported to the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) Registr...

Background—There is a recognized need for a national unified registry to track presenting features, care, and outcomes for patients with acute myocardial infarction. To address this need, the American Heart Association’s Get With the Guidelines–Coronary Artery Disease program joined the Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network (ACTION) Registry to create the National Cardiovas...

BACKGROUND Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is recognized as a major public health problem in Australia with significant mortality, morbidity and economic burden. However, there is no comprehensive surveillance programme to collect, collate and analyse data on CKD in a systematic way. METHODS We describe an initiative called CKD Queensland (CKD.QLD), which was established in 2009 to address this ...

BACKGROUND There is a recognized need for a national unified registry to track presenting features, care, and outcomes for patients with acute myocardial infarction. To address this need, the American Heart Association's Get With the Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease program joined the Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network (ACTION) Registry to create the National Cardiovas...