Determinants and interpretation of death certificate only proportions in the initial years of newly established cancer registries

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 931-937

  Brenner, Hermann ^a   Jansen, Lina ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer registries; Completeness; Death certificates only

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DEATH CERTIFICATE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; ORBIT CANCER; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; TESTIS CANCER; THYROID CANCER; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

DEATH CERTIFICATES; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873709771     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: 18790852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2012.09.029     Document Type: Article

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