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Accuracy of skin cancer incidence data in the United Kingdom
Author(s) -
BEADLE P.C.,
BULLOCK DIANA,
BEDFORD GILL,
LEACH J.F.,
WEBB ROSEMARY A.,
DENT N.A.,
BURTON J.L.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
clinical and experimental dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1365-2230
pISSN - 0307-6938
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1982.tb02424.x
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , cancer registry , skin cancer , cancer , cancer incidence , melanoma , dermatology , demography , physics , cancer research , sociology , optics
Summary A thorough survey was undertaken of all new patients with skin cancer resident in Avon who were treated in Bristol in 1974. These results were then compared with the official skin cancer incidence figures from the Cancer Registry of the South‐Western Regional Health Authority. Our survey suggests that the Cancer Registry figures underestimated the incidence of malignant melanoma by at least 8–19% and for non‐melanoma cancer the underestimate was at least 14–28%.