Incidence of retinoblastoma in children and adolescents in Brazil: A population-based study by Annamaria Ciminelli Barbosa, Annamaria Ciminelli Barbosa, Maria Clara de Magalhães-Barbosa, Jessica Pronestino de Lima Moreira, Giovanni Nicola Umberto Italiano Colombini, Arnaldo Prata-Barbosa, Arnaldo Prata-Barbosa

“…ObjectiveTo estimate the incidence of retinoblastoma in children and adolescents in Brazil based on Population-Based Cancer Registry (PBCR), describing temporal trends and some quality indicators of this registry.MethodsBased on secondary data from the PBCR of the National Institute of Cancer (INCA) (2000–2018), by selecting the morphological code of retinoblastoma, the annual incidences per million (0–19 years of age) in each local PBCR were estimated by sex and age group, global combined and by region, in addition to the percentage of diagnosis only by death certificate (DC) or not informed (NI), and the male/female ratio (M/F). …”
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Impact of Insulin Therapies on Cancer Incidence in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes: A Population-Based Cohort Study in Reggio Emilia, Italy by Massimo Vicentini, Paola Ballotari, Francesco Venturelli, Marta Ottone, Valeria Manicardi, Marco Gallo, Marina Greci, Mirco Pinotti, Annamaria Pezzarossi, Paolo Giorgi Rossi

“…Drug exposure was assessed for 2009–2011 and follow up was conducted from 2012 to 2016 through the cancer registry. Incidence rate ratios (IRRs) were computed for all sites and for the most frequent cancer sites. …”
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Impact of Microscopic Confirmation on Therapeutic Management of Pancreatic Cancer Patients: Lessons from an Italian Regional Tumor Registry by Alberto Fantin, Mario Gruppo, Ottavia De Simoni, Sara Lonardi, Chiara Cristofori, Tiziana Morbin, Giulia Peserico, Sabina Grillo, Annalisa Masier, Monica Franco, Pierluigi Pilati, Stefano Guzzinati, Manuel Zorzi, Massimo Rugge

“…Methods: The Veneto region (north-eastern Italy) has been covered by a cancer registry (CR) since 1987. Clinical and oncological data about all cases of PC in the Veneto region from 1987 were extracted from the Veneto CR database. …”
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Diabetes Mellitus Is a Strong Independent Negative Prognostic Factor in Patients with Brain Metastases Treated with Radiotherapy by Seong Jeong, Soniya Poudyal, Sabine Klagges, Thomas Kuhnt, Kirsten Papsdorf, Peter Hambsch, Johannes Wach, Erdem Güresir, Franziska Nägler, Alexander Rühle, Nils H. Nicolay, Clemens Seidel

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Competing risk analysis of cardiovascular disease risk in breast cancer patients receiving a radiation boost by Yvonne Koop, Femke Atsma, Marilot C.T. Batenburg, Hanneke Meijer, Femke van der Leij, Roxanne Gal, Sanne G.M. van Velzen, Ivana Išgum, Hester Vermeulen, Angela H.E.M. Maas, Saloua El Messaoudi, Helena M. Verkooijen

“…Boost data were derived from hospital records and the national cancer registry. Follow-up data on CVD events were obtained from Statistics Netherlands until December 31, 2018. …”
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High-Grade Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia (CIN) Associates with Increased Proliferation and Attenuated Immune Signaling by Irene Tveiterås Øvestad, Birgit Engesæter, Mari Kyllesø Halle, Saleha Akbari, Beatrix Bicskei, Morten Lapin, Marie Austdal, Emiel A. M. Janssen, Camilla Krakstad, Melinda Lillesand, Marit Nordhus, Ane Cecilie Munk, Einar G. Gudlaugsson

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Cancer surveillance in Mato Grosso, Brazil: methodological and operational aspects of a university extension/research project by Noemi Dreyer Galvão, Rita Adriana Gomes de Souza, Bárbara da Silva Nalin de Souza, Francine Nesello Melanda, Amanda Cristina de Souza Andrade, Neuciani Ferreira da Silva Sousa, Márcia Leopoldina Montanari Correa, Ageo Mario Candido da Silva, Marco Aurélio Bertúlio das Neves, Jânia Cristiane de Souza Oliveira, Juliana Fernandes Cabral, Mariana Rosa Soares, Paulo Cesar Fernandes de Souza, Mário Ribeiro Alves, Jackson Rogerio Barbosa, Wanderlei Antonio Pignati

“…Methods: VIGICAN was divided into two projects: a university extension one, which updated the data from the Population-based Cancer Registry (PBCR) of MT in the 2008-2016 period; and a research project, which collected primary data, through individual interviews and analysis of medical records of people with a diagnosis of cancer, aged 18 years or older, treated at reference hospitals for oncology. …”
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Trends in colorectal cancer in Iraq over two decades: incidence, mortality, topography and morphology by Salih Ibrahem, Hussien Ahmed, Suhair Zangana

“…DESIGN: Registry-based study SETTING: Iraqi National Cancer Registry (INCR) database PATIENTS AND METHODS: We collected and analyzed data from CRC patients obtained from the INCR to calculate incidence and mortality proportion per 100 000 population for the period from 2000 to 2019. …”
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Factors associated with health-related quality of life in a cohort of cancer survivors in New Jersey by Sharon Manne, Katie Devine, Shawna Hudson, Deborah Kashy, Denalee O’Malley, Lisa E. Paddock, Elisa V. Bandera, Adana A. M. Llanos, Angela Fong, Neetu Singh, Sara Frederick, Andrew M. Evens

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Community prescribing trends and prevalence in the last year of life, for people who die from cancer by Sarah E. E. Mills, Deans Buchanan, Peter T. Donnan, Blair H. Smith

“…Methods This descriptive study, analysed all 181,247 prescriptions issued to a study population of 2443 cancer decedents in Tayside, Scotland (2013–2015), in the last year of life, linking prescribing data to demographic, and cancer registry datasets using the unique patient-identifying Community Health Index (CHI) number. …”
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Decision-analytic evaluation of the comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of strategies to prevent breast and ovarian cancer in German women with BRCA-1/2 mutations by Lára R. Hallsson, Gaby Sroczynski, Jutta Engel, Uwe Siebert

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Impact of Pre-Diagnostic Risk Factors on Short- and Long-Term Ovarian Cancer Survival Trajectories: A Longitudinal Observational Study by Shana J. Kim, Shelley S. Tworoger, Barry P. Rosen, John R. McLaughlin, Harvey A. Risch, Steven A. Narod, Joanne Kotsopoulos

“…Data were obtained from medical records, interviews, and the provincial cancer registry. Extended Cox proportional hazard models estimated the association between risk factors and all-cause and ovarian cancer-specific mortality by survival time intervals (<3 years (i.e., short-term survival), 3 to <6 years, 6 to <10 years, and ≥10 years (i.e., long-term survival)). …”
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Melanoma Mortality Trends in 28 European Countries: A Retrospective Analysis for the Years 1960–2020 by Paweł Koczkodaj, Urszula Sulkowska, Joanna Didkowska, Piotr Rutkowski, Marta Mańczuk

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Uveal melanoma incidence trends in Canada: 1992–2010 vs. 2011–2017 by Santina Conte, François Lagacé, Feras M. Ghazawi, Leila Cattelan, Siddharth Nath, Jobanpreet Dhillon, Hacene Nedjar, Elham Rahme, Denis Sasseville, Miguel N. Burnier, Ivan V. Litvinov, Ivan V. Litvinov

“…Despite its low incidence rate, we have noted increasing incidence trends in recent years.MethodsWe analyzed uveal melanoma incidence data using the Canadian Cancer Registry (CCR) for 2011–2017 years. The data was examined using the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, Third Edition, codes for all uveal melanoma subtypes. …”
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Impact of Smoking-Related Chronic Obstruction Pulmonary Disease on Mortality of Invasive Ductal Carcinoma Patients Receiving Standard Treatments: Propensity Score-Matched, Nationwi... by Jia-Qiang Zhang, Tsai-Mu Cheng, Wei-Chun Lin, Kuo-Chin Chiu, Szu-Yuan Wu

“…Methods: we recruited women with clinical stage I–III IDC from the Taiwan Cancer Registry Database who had received standard treatments between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2018. …”
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Real-world effectiveness of aromatase inhibitors and fulvestrant in HR+/HER2- advanced breast cancer: a snapshot of the last two years before conventional use of CDK 4/6 inhibitors... by Maria Inês Teodoro, Alexandra Mayer, Ana da Costa Miranda, Hugo Nunes, Filipa Alves da Costa, António Lourenço

“…Effectiveness data is essential for regulatory action, but little is known about real-world use of aromatase inhibitors and fulvestrant.Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted resorting to data from a cancer registry to identify adult women with HR+/HER- advanced breast cancer exposed to aromatase inhibitors or fulvestrant (31 May 2017–31 March 2019) at the main oncology hospital in Portugal. …”
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Measured weight loss as a precursor to cancer diagnosis: retrospective cohort analysis of 43 302 primary care patients by Nicholson, BD, Thompson, MJ, Hobbs, FDR, Nguyen, M, McLellan, J, Green, B, Chubak, J, Oke, JL

“…<br><strong> Methods<br></strong> Retrospective cohort study of primary care electronic health records data linked to the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results cancer registry (Integrated healthcare delivery system in Washington State, United States). …”

The burden of primary liver cancer and underlying etiologies from 1990 to 2015 at the global, regional, and national level: Results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 by Global Burden of Disease Liver Cancer Collaboration, Hay, S

“…</p><p> Design, Settings, and Participants Mortality was estimated using vital registration and cancer registry data in an ensemble modeling approach. …”

Development of electronic medical records for clinical and research purposes: the breast cancer module using an implementation framework in a middle income country- Malaysia by Mohd Nor, Nurul Aqilah, Mohd Taib, Nur Aishah, Saad, Marniza, Zaini, Hana Salwani, Ahmad, Zahir, Ahmad, Yamin, Dhillon, Sarinder Kaur

“…Future applications include establishing integration with external organization such as the National Registration Department for mortality data, reporting of institutional data for national cancer registry as well as data mining for clinical research. …”

Single and multiple time–point artificial neural networks models for predicting the survival of gastric cancer patients by Dezfouli, Hamid Nilsaz

“…The dataset used in the study comprises of patients with confirmed gastric cancer who underwent surgery at the Cancer Registry Center of Taleghani Hospital, Tehran, Iran. …”
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