Concordance of National Cancer Registration with self-reported breast, bowel and lung cancer in England and Wales: a prospective cohort study within the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening

BACKGROUND: It has been suggested that lower UK cancer survival may be due to incomplete case ascertainment by cancer registries. METHODS: We assessed concordance between self-reported breast, bowel and lung cancer and cancer registration (CR) for 1995–2007 in England and Wales in the UK Collaborati...

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Autores principales: Gentry-Maharaj, A, Fourkala, E-O, Burnell, M, Ryan, A, Apostolidou, S, Habib, M, Sharma, A, Parmar, M, Jacobs, I, Menon, U
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3844906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24129231
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2013.626
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: It has been suggested that lower UK cancer survival may be due to incomplete case ascertainment by cancer registries. METHODS: We assessed concordance between self-reported breast, bowel and lung cancer and cancer registration (CR) for 1995–2007 in England and Wales in the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening. RESULTS: Concordance of breast cancer CR was higher (94.7%:95% CI: 94.1–95.3%) than for bowel (85.1%:95% CI: 82.1–87.8%) and lung (85.4%:95% CI: 76.3–92.0%). CR concordance was lower in breast cancer (94.5% vs 98.8%) survivors compared with deceased but the difference was small. No difference was found for bowel (85.3% vs 94.6%) or lung (87.1% vs 90.5%) cancer. CONCLUSION: Concordance of CR and self-reported cancer is high. Incomplete registration is unlikely to be a major cause of lower UK survival rates.

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