Cancer registry

Paddle GM. 1983. Incidence of liver cancer and trichloroethylene manufacture Joint study by industry and a cancer registry. Br Med J 286 846. 

The Cancer Registry of Norway was started in 1952, and all new cases of cancer in Norway have ever since been subject to compulsory reporting. The data can be broken down on sex, age and residence. 

In the first few years, there was a known underreporting, bur reliable cancer incidence data from 1955 and up to date are available (Cancer Registry, 1978). 

Cancer Registry of Norway, 1978, Incidence of Cancer in Norway 1972-1976. The Norwegian Cancer Society, Oslo. 

The Cancer Surveillance Program, the population-based SEER cancer registry of Los Angeles County which we developed and operate. 

The Family Colon Cancer Registry, a multi-institutional study headquartered here of 4,000 multiplex colon cancer families. 

In the beginning, before there is analysis, there must be accurate description. How much cancer is there, and how do rates of occurrence vary geographically, and between sexes, and with age How do rates of different types of cancer vary over time, and what happens to the rates that occur in specific groups of people when they move from one geographic location to another Information describing these types of differences and trends - which can be compiled with accuracy only when cancer registry information is reliable - are enormously beneficial in providing clues to the causes of cancer. The statistical data presented in Chapter 5 arose from these types of studies. 

Hanley, and Y. Mao. Alcohol, tobacco CA048 and coffee consumption and the risk of pancreatic cancer results from Canadian Enhanced Surveillance System case-control project. Canadian Cancer Registries Epidemiology Research Group. Eur J Cancer Prev 2000 9(1) ... 

Keating, J., Pater, P, Lolohea, S., Wickremesekera, K. (2003). The epidemiology of colorectal cancer what can we learn from the New Zealand Cancer Registry Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association 116, No 1174, www.nzma.org.nz/journal/116-1174. 

Boice, J.D., Jr., Day, N.E., Andersen, A., Brinton, L.A., Brown, R, Choi, N.W., Clarke, E.A., Coleman, M.R, Curtis, R.E., and Flannery, J.T. (1985b). Second cancers following radiation treatment for cervical cancer. An international collaboration among cancer registries, J. NatL Cancer Inst. 74,955. 

In a case-control study in the north of Sweden, Hallquist et al. (1993) compared 188 men and women aged 20-70 years who had thyroid cancer with age- and sex-matched controls (two per case) selected from a register of the local population. The cases were identified retrospectively from a cancer registry and excluded a proportion of patients (19%) who had died by the time of the study. Exposure to potential risk factors, including chlorophenols, was ascertained by postal questionnaire with a supplementary telephone interview if answers were incomplete. The response rates for the cases and controls were 95% and 90%, respectively. Of the 171 cases analysed, 107 had papillary tumours. Four cases and three controls reported exposure to chlorophenols (odds ratio, 2.8 95% CI, 0.5-18). [The Working Group noted that the method of statistical analysis was not the most appropriate for individually matched data, but this is unlikely to have produced serious bias.]... 

A possible relation between systemic glucocorticoid use and a risk of esophageal cancer has been described in a population-based study in Denmark, in which the prescriptions database and the Danish cancer registry were linked (365). There was an increase in the number of cases observed (n = 36) compared with the number expected (n = 19), with a standardized incidence ratio of 1.92 (95% Cl = 1.34, 2.65). 

Example L Kono (2004) conducted an ecological study in Japan that compared consumption of selected nutrients with annual colon cancer incidence and mortality across time. Annual per capita consumption data of selected nutrients and foods was obtained from nationwide surveys, which were conducted from 1950 to 2000 and contained data from randomly selected houses across the nation. The food group identified as meat contained poultry and fish. Consumption of red meat was not available for the early years. Annual age-adjusted rates of cancer incidence (from cancer registries) were available for the period 1975 to 1997, and age-adjusted mortality rates were available for the period 1950 and 2000. Means of height and... 

A cancer registry was initiated by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in 1986. However, no conclusive evidence of an increase in cancer in the exposed population has been documented. Dikshit and Kanhere (1999) analyzed the incidence of cancer in gas-exposed males during1987-1992 but found no significant increase in cancer. On the other hand, these researchers (Dikshit and Kanhere, 1999) predicted that a true estimate of any increase in the incidence of cancer can only be made 15-20 years after the accident, but no such study has since been pubhshed. 

Hall NEL, Rosenmann KD. 1991. Cancer by industry Analysis of a population-based cancer registry with an emphasis on blue-collar workers. Am J Ind Med 19(2) 145-159. 

Kaldor JM, Day NE, Band P, Choi NW, Clarke EA, Coleman MP, Hakama M, Koch M, Langmark F, Neal FE, et al. Second malignancies following testicular cancer, ovarian cancer and Hodgkin s disease an international collaborative study among cancer registries. Int J Cancer 1987 39(5) 571-85. 

Hemolytic-uremic syndrome has often been described in patients treated with mitomycin (5-7). Up to 1990 the United States National Cancer Registry received 85 reports of cancer-associated hemolytic-uremic syndrome and 84 had received a cumulative dose of 60 mg mitomycin or more as part of their treatment (8). 

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