Abstract
In recent years, there has been an expansion in the number of registries that ascertain cancer incidence and treatment. Currently available information sources include population-based data collected by the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End-Results (SEER) program and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR). In addition, the American College of Surgeons (ACOS) maintains the National Cancer Database, registry data from a consortium of ACOS approved hospitals. These data provide researchers with unprecedented access to a wealth of information on large numbers of cancer patients. Advances in information technology such as the ability to store large amounts of data on increasingly smaller media and developments in the software associated with these datasets have in-
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