Completeness of colon and rectal cancer staging in the Danish Cancer Registry, 2004-2009

Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 4, Issue SUPPL.2, 2012, Pages 33-38

  Ostenfeld, Eva Bjerre ^a   Frøslev, Trine ^a   Friis, Søren ^b   Gandrup, Per ^a   Madsen, Mogens Rørbæk ^c   Søgaard, Mette ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b DANISH CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTER   (Denmark)

^c HERNING HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cancer; Colorectal neoplasm; Epidemiology; Neoplasm staging; Registries; TNM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; COLON CANCER; COMORBIDITY; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RECTUM CANCER; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREND STUDY;

EID: 84866645882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CLEP.S32362     Document Type: Article

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