The Impact of Health Inequities on Population-Based Breast Cancer Survival in a Colombian Population, 2008-2015 by Nelson Arias-Ortiz PhD, Juan David Rodríguez-Betancourt MSc, Jhon Eder Toro-Toro MPH, Édgar Navarro-Lechuga MSc, Daniel Marcelo Jurado-Fajardo MSc, Karen Cárdenas-Garzón MSc, Gloria Inés Sánchez-Vásquez PhD

“…Methods Analytical cohort study based on breast cancer incident cases recorded by the Population-based Manizales Cancer Registry between 2008-2015. Patients were followed-up for 60 months. …”
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Differences in Cervical Cancer Outcomes by Caribbean Nativity in Black and White Women in Florida by Patricia P. Jeudin MD, Alex P. Sanchez-Covarrubias MD, Amanda R. Thiele MD, Isildinha M. Reis PhD, Erin Kobetz PhD, MPH, Sophia H. L. George PhD, Matthew P. Schlumbrecht MD, MPH

“…Methods An analysis of the Florida Cancer Data Service (FCDS), the statewide cancer registry, was performed to identify women diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer between 1981 and 2016. …”
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Sex difference of cancers over the years: age standardized incidence rates, trends, and exposure to risk factors in Sri Lanka by Janaki Vidanapathirana, Sashiprabha Nawaratne, Malawige Amila Suranga, Saddharma Weerakoon

“…Methodology: Data from National Cancer Registry, Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2019 were used to analyze male and female age standardized incidence rates (ASRs). …”
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MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS IN CHILDREN POPULATION OF TOMSK REGION by L. F. Pisareva, E. L. Choinozov, L. D. Zhuikova, I. N. Odintsova, L. V. Pikalova, I. Yu. Smirnova

“…Patients and methods: the assessment was performed for the period of time between 2004 and 2011 based on population cancer-registry and specialized documents using methods recommended by P.A. …”
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Defunctioning stoma in anterior resection for rectal cancer does not impact anastomotic leakage: a national population-based cohort study by Eihab Munshi, Marie-Louise Lydrup, Pamela Buchwald

“…Methods Elective patients subjected to AR in 2007–2009 and 2016-18 were recruited from the Swedish colorectal cancer registry (SCRCR). Patient characteristics, including DS status and occurrence of AL, were analyzed. …”
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Gallbladder cancer in eastern India – The current scenario and the challenges for the future by Mallick SK, Nahid G, Deb AR

“…Material and methods: After obtaining institutional ethics committee approval, gallbladder cases were identified from the institutional cancer registry. Then those data were tabulated in the excel sheet in the different epidemiological parameters and its outcome responses during June 2019 to December 2020. …”
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Risk Analysis of Thyroid Cancer in China: A Spatial Analysis by Yu Wang, Wenhui Wang, Peng Li, Xin Qi, Wenbiao Hu

“…The regional TC data in 2016 were obtained from the China Cancer Registry Annual Report published by the National Cancer Center (NCC). …”
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Incidence and geographic distribution of retinoblastoma in Ethiopia by Sadik Taju Sherief, Gadisa Asfaw, Aemero Abateneh, Solomon Takewe, Diriba Fufa, Teshager Wondale, Temesgen Takele, Helen Dimaras

“…Based on global estimates, Ethiopia is expected to observe over 200 new retinoblastoma cases per year, however without a cancer registry, this number is difficult to confirm. …”
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Cancer and diabetes co-occurrence: A national study with 44 million person-years of follow-up by Jason Gurney, James Stanley, Andrea Teng, Jeremy Krebs, Jonathan Koea, Chunhuan Lao, Ross Lawrenson, Ineke Meredith, Dianne Sika-Paotonu, Diana Sarfati

“…In this manuscript, we use national-level diabetes (Virtual Diabetes Register) and cancer (New Zealand Cancer Registry) data on nearly five million individuals over 44 million person-years of follow-up to examine the occurrence of cancer amongst a national prevalent cohort of patients with diabetes. …”
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Seasonality of Deaths Due to Heart Diseases among Cancer Patients by Velizar Shivarov, Hristo Shivarov, Angel Yordanov

“…<i>Materials and Methods</i>: We performed a retrospective analysis of seasonality of deaths due to heart diseases (<i>n</i> = 503,243) in patients with newly diagnosed cancer reported during the period from 1975 to 2016 in the US’s largest cancer registry—the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. …”
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Recruitment and Retention Strategies Used in Dietary Randomized Controlled Interventions with Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review by Samantha J. Werts, Sarah A. Lavelle, Tracy E. Crane, Cynthia A. Thomson

“…Recruitment methods included cancer registry and clinician referral, hospital records, flyers, and media campaigns, and were reported in 88.2% of studies. …”
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Incidence, mortality and survival patterns of prostate cancer among residents in Singapore from 1968 to 2002 by Reilly Marie, Pawitan Yudi, Sim Xueling, Lim Gek Hsiang, Tan Chuen Seng, Chia Sin Eng, Mohamed Ali Safiyya, Lau Weber, Chia Kee Seng

“…</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>This is a retrospective population-based cohort study including all prostate cancer cases aged over 20 (n = 3613) reported to the Singapore Cancer Registry from 1968 to 2002. Age-standardized incidence, mortality rates and 5-year Relative Survival Ratios (RSRs) were obtained for each 5-year period. …”
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Pattern of female genital tract malignancy in University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Enugu by K C Nwankwo, O C Okafor, H U Ezegwui

“…Data on female genital cancers were collected from patients' case notes from the gynaecology ward of University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Enugu, the cancer registry and histopathology records from morbid anatomy department. …”
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The impact of second primary malignancies on head and neck cancer survivors: a nationwide cohort study. by Li-Jen Liao, Hsu-Wen Chou, Chi-Te Wang, Chen-Shuan Chung, Mei-Shu Lai

“…METHODS AND FINDINGS:Between 1986 and 2008, a total of 9,996 SPMs were recorded for 93,891 patients with an initial diagnosis of HNC by the Taiwan Cancer Registry. Patients were followed with national death registry database to 2011.Using the Kaplan-Meier method, a time-dependent covariate was employed to compare the survival rates between patients with and without SPMs. …”
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Comparison of colorectal and gastric cancer: Survival and prognostic factors by Moghimi-Dehkordi Bijan, Safaee Azadeh, Zali Mohammad

“…<b> Methods: </b> We studied 1873 patients with either gastric or colorectal cancer who were registered in one referral cancer registry center in Tehran, Iran. All patients were followed from their time of diagnosis until December 2006 (as failure time). …”
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Cancer and diabetes co-occurrence: A national study with 44 million person-years of follow-up. by Jason Gurney, James Stanley, Andrea Teng, Jeremy Krebs, Jonathan Koea, Chunhuan Lao, Ross Lawrenson, Ineke Meredith, Dianne Sika-Paotonu, Diana Sarfati

“…In this manuscript, we use national-level diabetes (Virtual Diabetes Register) and cancer (New Zealand Cancer Registry) data on nearly five million individuals over 44 million person-years of follow-up to examine the occurrence of cancer amongst a national prevalent cohort of patients with diabetes. …”
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Validation of administrative data sources for endoscopy utilization in colorectal cancer diagnosis by Li Xue, Hilsden Robert, Hossain Shakhawat, Fleming John, Winget Marcy

“…</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Primary and secondary data sources for endoscopy were collected from the Alberta Cancer Registry, cancer medical charts and three different administrative data sources. 1672 randomly sampled patients diagnosed with invasive colorectal cancer in years 2000–2005 in Alberta, Canada were included. …”
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Trends in lung cancer incidence in Lebanon by gender and histological type over the period 2005–2008 by Sally Temraz, Maya Charafeddine, Deborah Mukherji, Ali Shamseddine

“…Materials and methods Lung cancer data using ICD-O, 3rd edition, from the Lebanese National Cancer Registry from 2005 to 2008 were stratified by gender for histology type for patients aged over 18 years. …”
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Why are Polish women diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer after negative cytology in the organized screening programme – a pilot reevaluation of negative Pap smears preceding di... by Katarzyna Komerska, Anna Macios, Patrycja Glińska, Włodzimierz Olszewski, Joanna Didkowska, Urszula Wojciechowska, Michał F. Kamiński, Andrzej Nowakowski

“…Data on all Pap smears collected in the organised screening in 2010-2015 were retrieved from the electronic database and linked with Polish National Cancer Registry (PNCR) data. False-negative results were defined as those sampled and assessed normal up to 3.5 years before diagnosis of invasive CC. …”
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Trends in lung cancer incidence in Sri Lanka from 2005-2019 by Muzrif Munas, Mekala Fernando, Sachintha Dilhani, Sashiprabha Nawaratne

“…Methods: All newly diagnosed 'trachea bronchus and lung' cancer patients in Sri Lanka during 2005-2019 included in the National Cancer Registry, Sri Lanka (NCR-SL) were analysed. Crude incidence rates (CR) and age standardized incidence rates (ASR) were compared using the Joinpoint regression program.   …”
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