Impact of family history of breast cancer on tumour characteristics, treatment, risk of second cancer and survival among men with breast cancer by Christine Bouchardy, Elisabetta Rapiti, Gerald Fioretta, Hyma Schubert, Pierre Chappuis, Georges Vlastos, Simone Benhamou

“…METHODS: We included 46 patients with known information on the family history of breast or ovarian cancer recorded at the Geneva Cancer Registry between 1970 and 2009. We compared patients with and without a family history with chi-square of heterogeneity, risk of second cancer with standardised incidence ratios (SIRs), and overall survival by Kaplan-Meier methods. …”
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The Role of Postoperative Radiotherapy for Carcinosarcoma of the Uterus by Dirk Vordermark, Daniel Medenwald, Victor Izaguirre, Frank Sieker, Simone Marnitz

“…Although no relevant new data from prospective trials or meta-analyses were identified, 14 analyses of cancer registry data from the United States or Europe, focusing predominantly on the endpoint for overall survival, were identified, four of them using propensity-score matching to compare subgroups treated with vs. without radiotherapy. …”
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Disease Burden and Indirect Economic Burden Due to Lung Cancer from 1981 to 2020 in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, China by SHEN Yijun, HU Wenbin, NI Bin

“…Methods The incidence and death cases of lung cancer were obtained from cancer registry and death cause monitoring data. The disability adjusted life years (DALY) was used as the evaluation index for burden posed by lung cancer on health, and the indirect economic burden was calculated by a human capital method. …”
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Moderate Altitude Residence Reduces Male Colorectal and Female Breast Cancer Mortality More Than Incidence: Therapeutic Implications? by Johannes Burtscher, Grégoire P. Millet, Kathrin Renner-Sattler, Jeannette Klimont, Monika Hackl, Martin Burtscher

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Real-World Data on EGFR and ALK Testing and TKI Usage in Norway—A Nation-Wide Population Study by Inger Johanne Zwicky Eide, Yngvar Nilssen, Elin Marie Stensland, Odd Terje Brustugun

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Mohs micrographic surgery versus wide local excision for head and neck melanoma-in-situ by Kevin Phan, James Onggo, Asad Loya

“…Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEERs) cancer registry. A total of 7933 cases of MIS in the head and neck region were included in this study, of which 5353 cases were treated by WLE and the remaining 2580 cases by MMS. …”
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Short term results in a population based study indicate advantage for laparoscopic colon cancer surgery versus open by Josefin Petersson, Peter Matthiessen, Kaveh Dehlaghi Jadid, David Bock, Eva Angenete

“…All 13,683 patients who were diagnosed 2012–2018 and underwent elective surgery for right-sided or sigmoid colon cancer were included from the Swedish Colorectal Cancer Registry and the National Patient Registry. Primary outcome was 30-day mortality. …”
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Development and validation of clinical prediction models for breast cancer incidence and mortality: a protocol for a dual cohort study by Clift, AK, Hippisley-Cox, J, Dodwell, D, Lord, S, Brady, M, Petrou, S, Collins, GS

“…<br> <strong>Methods and analysis</strong> The study will use data for women aged 20–90 years between 2000 and 2020 from QResearch linked at the individual level to hospital episodes, cancer registry and death registry data. It will evaluate a set of modelling approaches to predict the risk of developing breast cancer within the next 10 years, the ‘combined’ risk of developing a breast cancer and then dying from it within 10 years, and the risk of breast cancer mortality within 10 years of diagnosis. …”

Childhood cancer in relation to distance from high voltage power lines in England and Wales: a case-control study. by Draper, G, Vincent, T, Kroll, M, Swanson, J

“…DESIGN: Case-control study. SETTING: Cancer registry and National Grid records. SUBJECTS: Records of 29 081 children with cancer, including 9700 with leukaemia. …”

Initiation of adjuvant chemotherapy and trastuzumab for human epidermal growth receptor 2-positive early invasive breast cancer in a population-based cohort study of older women in... by Gannon, MR, Dodwell, D, Jauhari, Y, Horgan, K, Clements, K, Medina, J, Cromwell, DA

“…</p> <p><strong>Materials and methods</strong> Women, aged 50 years and over, newly diagnosed with human epidermal growth receptor 2 (HER2)-positive early invasive breast cancer from January 2014 to December 2017 were identified from the England Cancer Registry. Chemotherapy and trastuzumab use was obtained from the Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) dataset. …”

Risk of venous thromboembolism in people with lung cancer: a cohort study using linked UK healthcare data by Walker, A, Baldwin, D, Card, T, Powell, H, Hubbard, R, Grainge, M

“…</p><p> METHODS: We conducted a cohort study using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink linked to Hospital Episode Statistics and Cancer Registry data. Our cohort comprises 10 598 people with lung cancer diagnosed between 1997 and 2006 with follow-up continuing to the end of 2010. …”

Methodology to forecast volume and cost of cancer drugs in low- and middle-income countries by Martei, YM, Chiyapo, S, Grover, S, Hanna, C, Dryden-Peterson, S, Pusoentsi, M, Shulman, LN, Tapela, N

“…We used de-identified aggregate data from the Botswana National Cancer Registry to estimate incident cases. The WHO Management Sciences for Health International Price Indicator was used to estimate unit costs per drug. …”

Trends in female breast cancer incidence, mortality, and survival in Austria, with focus on age, stage, and birth cohorts (1983-2017) by Ilic, L, Haidinger, G, Simon, J, Hackl, M, Schernhammer, E, Papantoniou, K

“…Incidence, mortality, and survival, as well as age-, stage-, and birth cohort-specific incidence were analysed using nationwide cancer registry data on 163,694 cases of female breast cancer in Austria (1983-2017). …”

Cancer incidence and mortality: A cohort study in China, 2008-2013 by Pan, R, Zhu, M, Yu, C, Lv, J, Guo, Y, Bian, Z, Yang, L, Chen, Y, Hu, Z, Chen, Z, Li, L, Shen, H, China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group

“…The National Central Cancer Registry of China (NCCR) was the only available source of cancer monitoring in China, even though only about 70% of cancer registration sites were qualified by now. …”

Temporal trends in the incidence of malignant and non-malignant primary brain and central nervous system tumors by method of diagnosis in England, 1993-2017 by Ali, UM, Withrow, DR, Judge, AD, Plaha, P, Darby, SC

“…Methods Data on all 188,340 individuals diagnosed with a primary CNS tumor in England (1993-2017) were obtained from the National Cancer Registry. Data on all CT head and MRI brain scans in England (2013-2017) were obtained from NHS Digital. …”

Empirical estimates of the lead time distribution for prostate cancer based on two independent representative cohorts of men not subject to prostate-specific antigen screening. by Savage, C, Lilja, H, Cronin, A, Ulmert, D, Vickers, A

“…METHODS: We linked the Swedish cancer registry to two independent cohorts: 60-year-olds sampled in 1981-1982 and 51- to 56-year-olds sampled in 1982-1985. …”

Time-dependent associations between presentation-based infections and subsequent risk of childhood immune cell malignancies by Yang, TYO, Huang, K-YA, Chen, M-H, Chen, P-C, Huang, W-T

“…<p><strong>Methods</strong></p> Identified from Taiwan Cancer Registry, ∼3000 children with four commonest immune cell malignancies diagnosed during 2001–2015 at age 1–20 years were identified and matched with 1:10 controls. …”

Familial risk of prostate cancer in Iceland. by Eldon, B, Jonsson, E, Tomasson, J, Tryggvadottir, L, Tulinius, H

“…Information on cancer incidence was obtained from the population-based Icelandic Cancer Registry, and information on families from a comprehensive genealogical database covering the population of Iceland. …”

Cardiac dose estimates from Danish and Swedish breast cancer radiotherapy during 1977-2001. by Taylor, C, Brønnum, D, Darby, S, Gagliardi, G, Hall, P, Jensen, M, McGale, P, Nisbet, A, Ewertz, M

“…METHODS: Representative samples of irradiated women were identified from the databases of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group and the Swedish Nationwide Cancer Registry. Virtual simulation, computed tomography planning and manual planning were used to reconstruct radiotherapy regimens on a typical woman. …”

A panel of kallikrein marker predicts prostate cancer in a large, population-based cohort followed for 15 years without screening. by Vickers, A, Gupta, A, Savage, C, Pettersson, K, Dahlin, A, Bjartell, A, Manjer, J, Scardino, P, Ulmert, D, Lilja, H

“…METHODS: The Malmö Diet and Cancer study is a population-based cohort of 11,063 Swedish men aged 45 to 73 providing a blood sample at baseline during 1991-1996. The Swedish Cancer Registry was used to identify 943 men diagnosed with prostate cancer by December 31, 2006. …”