Agreement estimate among three Italian cancer registries in the coding of multiple primary cancers

Tumori

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 533-538

  Buiatti, Eva ^a   Crocetti, Emanuele ^a,e   Gafà, Lorenzo ^b   Falcini, Fabio ^c   Amorosi, Andrea ^d   Milandri, Carlo ^c   La Rosa, Maria ^b  

^a Registro Tumori Toscano Istituto per Lo Studio e la Prevenzione Oncologica   (Italy)

^b Registro Tumori   (Italy)

^c Registro Tumori della Romagna   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^e UO Epidemiologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agreement; Coding; Multiple primary cancers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; HUMAN; ITALY; MULTIPLE CANCER;

HUMANS; ITALY; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; REGISTRIES;

EID: 0030431511     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030089169608200604     Document Type: Article

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