Accuracy and completeness of the New Zealand Cancer Registry for staging of invasive breast cancer

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 638-644

  Seneviratne, Sanjeewa ^a   Campbell, Ian ^a   Scott, Nina ^b   Shirley, Rachel ^c   Peni, Tamati ^c   Lawrenson, Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b WAIKATO DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD   (New Zealand)

^c WAIKATO HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer registry; Stage; Unstaged

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEW ZEALAND; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; AGE; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REGISTER; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL BIAS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84908116032     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: 1877783X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2014.06.008     Document Type: Article

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