The yield of fecal occult blood testing as a screening tool for colon cancer in a primary care setting by Naif M Almoneef, Abdullah H Alkhenizan, Ahmed S Mahmoud, Suad A Alsoghayer, Abdulaziz A Aldheshe

“…The Saudi ASIR in our study was higher than the Saudi Cancer Registry, but it was still lower in comparison to other countries. …”
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Estimating the loss of lifetime function using flexible parametric relative survival models by Lasse H. Jakobsen, Therese M.-L. Andersson, Jorne L. Biccler, Tarec C. El-Galaly, Martin Bøgsted

“…The accuracy of the estimated loss of lifetime function using various extrapolation approaches was assessed in a simulation study and by data from the Danish Cancer Registry where complete follow-up was available. …”
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Clustering of Pediatric Brain Tumors in Texas, 2000–2017 by Thanh T. Hoang, Omar Rosales, Elyse Burgess, Philip J. Lupo, Michael E. Scheurer, Abiodun O. Oluyomi

“…From 2000–2017, the Texas Cancer Registry recorded 4305 primary brain tumors diagnosed among children (≤19 years old). …”
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EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INDICATORS PREDICTING THE HIGH-TECHNOLOGICAL TYPES OF MEDICAL CARE VOLUMES IN BREAST CANCER CASES by N. S. Romanenkov, K. N. Movchan, V. V. Hizha, Yu. M. Morozov, A. V. Zharkov, O. I. Yakovenko, E. V. Zheleznyj

“…Statistical processing was carried out using the programs Statistica 12.0 for Windows, «Population cancer registry».Resalts and discussion. In 2017 yr., in St. …”
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Factors associated with mortality among patients with colorectal cancer at the secondary care hospital in Southern Thailand: Hospital-based retrospective cohort study by Yameela Maimard, Somkiattiyos Woradet, Bhunyabhadh Chaimay

“…Methods: This study was performed by using the secondary data of the cancer registry among patients with CRC registered in Phatthalung Hospital. …”
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Subsequent Systemic Therapy following Platinum and Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma by Joohyun Hong, Hyun Hwan Sung, Byong Chang Jeong, Se Hoon Park

“…To explore the role of subsequent systemic therapy, medical records from 436 patients who were consecutively treated with chemotherapy for mUC between May 2017 and April 2021 were collected from a single-center cancer registry. The primary endpoint was overall survival (OS), and progression-free survival (PFS) and response rate (RR) were also assessed. …”
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An unusually high prevalence of isolated prostatic ductal adenocarcinoma among Saudi patients: A registry-based study by Ahmed Alasker, Mohammad Alghafees, Eman N Chaudhri, Abdullah A Al Qurashi, Saleha Abdul Rab, Belal N Sabbah, Ziyad Musalli, Ali Alyami

“…The data were collected from the Saudi Cancer Registry, which collects tumor data from all private, military, and health ministry hospitals in Saudi Arabia through five regional offices. …”
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Examining the “Medicare Effect” on Distant-Stage Cancer Diagnoses by Site, Gender, and Rurality by Jason Semprini

“…Methods: This study analyzed 35 years of population-based cancer registry data from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results program for eight common cancers: Oral, Digestive, Respiratory, Skin, Genital, Urinary, Endocrine, and Breast. …”
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Lung cancer morbidity and mortality by V. M. Merabishvili, A. I. Arseniev, S. A. Tarkov, A. A. Barchuk, A. М. Shcherbakov, E. V. Demin, E. N. Merabishvili

“…The study material was given from the monograph «Cancer on Five Continents», which included data from the database of the Cancer Registry of PA. Herzen Moscow Research Oncology Institute (St. …”
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Disentangling Social Determinants of Health and Rurality in Head and Neck Cancer 2‐Year Mortality by Celina Virgen, Bryan Renslo, Tuleen Sawaf, Yelizaveta Shnayder, Kiran Kakarala, Andrés M. Bur, Kevin J. Sykes

“…The study was conducted using a Head and Neck Cancer Registry at a single institution from June 2018 through July 2022. …”
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4396 Immunoglobulin administration and hypogammaglobulinemia during pediatric acute leukemia therapy by Holly Edington, Shanmuganathan Chandrakasan, Tamara Miller, Nicholas DeGroote, Ann Mertens, Sharon Castellino

“…The cohort was identified through the cancer registry. Demographics, disease factors, laboratory values, medications and infection outcomes were linked between the electronic medical record and an institutional database. …”
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Safety Warning about Laparoscopic Power Morcellation in Hysterectomy: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of National Impact by Xiao Xu, Vrunda B. Desai, Peter E. Schwartz, Cary P. Gross, Haiqun Lin, Maria J. Schymura, Jason D. Wright

“…Probability-, cost-, and utility weight-related input parameters were derived from analysis of the State Inpatient Databases, State Ambulatory Surgery and Services Databases, data from the New York Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System and New York State Cancer Registry, and published literature. Results: With an estimated national sample of 353,567 adult women, base case analysis showed that changes in hysterectomy practice after the morcellation warning led to a net gain of 867.15 quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), but an increase of $19.54 million in costs (incremental cost-effectiveness ratio?…”
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Avoiding Axillary Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy after Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy in Breast Cancer: Rationale for the Prospective, Multicentric EUBREAST-01 Trial by Toralf Reimer, Aenne Glass, Edoardo Botteri, Sibylle Loibl, Oreste D. Gentilini

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Survival of Lung Cancer Patients by Histopathology in Taiwan from 2010 to 2016: A Nationwide Study by Hsuan-Chih Tsai, Jing-Yang Huang, Ming-Yu Hsieh, Bing-Yen Wang

“…Method: Data from 2010 to 2016 was collected from the Taiwan Cancer Registry (TCR). The characteristics and overall survival of 71,334 lung cancer patients were analyzed according to the tumor, node, metastasis (TNM) 7th staging system. …”
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Analysis of non-small cell lung cancer with miliary lung metastasis in patients harboring epidermal growth factor receptor mutations by Ming-Hung Chang, Kuo-Hwa Chiang, Jiunn-Min Shieh, Kuo-Chen Cheng, Chung-Han Ho

“…Cases were identified from Chi-Mei medical center cancer registry for the period 2015–2019. Inclusion criteria were NSCLC with contra-lateral lung metastasis harboring EGFR mutation, under tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) prescription. …”
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Spatiotemporal pattern of thyroid cancer incidence in South Kerala: A population-based study by Preethi Sara George, Aleyamma Mathew, S Sruthi, Sreekumar Ananthakrishna Kurup, Jayasree Kattoor, T R Vinod

“…Materials and Methods: TC incidence data (n = 1937) of Population Based Cancer Registry Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, between 2012 and 2016, were analyzed for identifying geographical patterns by spatial methods, temporal methods for studying spatial variation in TC incidence, distribution of age, gender, and histology in lowland (coastal), midland, and highland. …”
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Nuclear Oncology in Northeast India: Current scenario, challenges, and way forward by Kalpa Jyoti Das, Jitendra Kumar Meena, Abhinav Singhal

“…The recent ICMR-NCDIR population-based cancer registry data indicate that India's Northeast (NE) region is a hotbed of cancer cases, and has been dubbed as the “Cancer Capital of India” in the past literature. …”
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Retrospective evaluation of malignant melanoma patients: A single-center experience by Mustafa Solak, Saadettin Kılıçkap, İsmail Celık

“…Melanoma is one of the fastest rising of all cancers in the world.Methods: We retrospectively examined the medical records of adult patients who were diagnosed with melanoma between January 2005 and December 2013 according to the Hospital-Based Cancer Registry (HBCR) of Hacettepe University Oncology Hospital.Results: A total of 338 patients [193 (57.1%) men and 145 (42.9%) women] were included in the study. …”
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Cancer-Causing Effects of Orthopaedic Metal Implants in Total Hip Arthroplasty by Cherry W. Y. Sun, Lawrence C. M. Lau, Jason P. Y. Cheung, Siu-Wai Choi

“…Methods: Patients with THA conducted at a local tertiary implant centre from 2001–2008 were linked to the local cancer registry and followed up to the end of 2023. Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) for cancer incidence and its confidence interval by Poisson distribution were calculated. …”
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Comparative analysis of antibodies to four major periodontal bacteria in respiratory diseases: a cohort study by Kjersti S Rønningen, Dag S Thelle, Anne Lise Lund Håheim, Ingar Olsen

“…Cancer data from 17.5 years of follow-up were provided by the Norwegian Cancer Registry.Results In all, 52 men had reported asthma and 23 men had bronchitis/emphysema at the health screening. …”
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