Joining Efforts to Improve Data Quality and Harmonization Among European Population-Based Cancer Registries

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Joining Efforts to Improve Data Quality and Harmonization Among European Population-Based Cancer Registries is written by Francesco Giusti and published by Frontiers Media SA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 2832555829 (ISBN 10) and 9782832555828 (ISBN 13).

Population-based cancer registries are an essential information source for quantifying the impact of cancer in a population and its evolution, planning and evaluation of cancer control policies and healthcare systems. In the last decades, the information provided by cancer registries has improved dramatically in quality and quantity. Technological advances and record linkage have contributed to data improvement. Therefore, clinical data collected by cancer registries such as stage, treatment, co-morbidity, etc. contribute to treatment effectiveness assessment and identification of inequality in health care access at the population level. The reliability and utility of the information provided by cancer registries depend on the quality of the data collected. On the other hand, cancer registries' data harmonisation is crucial for data use and comparability.