Open AccessWhat are cancer registries
Author(s) -
Marica Miladinov-Mikov
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
medicinski pregled
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1820-7383
pISSN - 0025-8105
DOI - 10.2298/mpns0402027m
Subject(s) - medicine , cancer registry , cancer , population , epidemiology , international agency , epidemiology of cancer , family medicine , environmental health , cancer prevention , pathology , breast cancer
Population-based cancer registries attempt to collect, process, analyse, store and interpret data on persons with cancer in a certain population (most frequently a geographical area). Hospital-based cancer registries register all cases in a given hospital, usually without knowledge of the background population; the emphasis is to serve the needs of the hospital administration, the hospital cancer program, and, above all, the individual patient.