Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Vajdic, Claire M
• Er, Chuang Ching
• Schaffer, Andrea
• Dobbins, Timothy
• Wyld, Lucy
• Meagher, Nicola S
• Barrett, Jane
• Ward, Robyn L
• Pearson, Sallie-Anne

Titel

An audit of cancer of unknown primary notifications: A cautionary tale for population health research using cancer registry data

Ist Teil von

• Cancer epidemiology, 2014-08, Vol.38 (4), p.460-464

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Highlights • 30% of CUP cases registered by a population-based cancer registry were reclassified. • Cancer registration practices can have a significant impact on CUP incidence. • CUP patient and tumour characteristics can vary by the basis of diagnosis. • These findings highlight some of the challenges of population-level CUP research.