Cancer Registry and Its Different Aspects

Amm Shariful Alam

doi:10.3329/jemc.v1i2.11467

Abstract

At both the national and community level, cancer registration schemes are central to research into the nature and causation of cancer, to the planning of health service resources and cancer control programmes, and to the assessment of their efficacy. Cancer registration is thus a part of the modern health information system. There are two major types of cancer registries -hospital-based registries and population-based registries. It is of paramount importance that the issue of development of cancer registry in developing countries should be taken into account. Although, the cancer registry system in Bangladesh is in infantile stage, it should be the aim of the health planner of our country to develop population-based cancer registry as early as possible. The extra difficulties and expenses involved are certainly outweighed by the enhanced validity and usefulness of the data generated. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jemc.v1i2.11467 J Enam Med Col 2011; 1(2): 76-80

Highlights

Cancer registry may be defined as an organization for the collection, storage, analysis and interpretation of data on persons with cancer
Cancer registration is the fundamental method in the United States by which information is systematically collected about the incidence and types of cancer, the anatomic location, the extent of disease at the time of diagnosis, the kinds of treatment received by cancer patients, and the outcomes of treatment and clinical management.[14]
Reliable registry data are fundamental to a variety of research efforts, including those aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of cancer prevention, control or treatment programs

Summary

Introduction

Cancer registry may be defined as an organization for the collection, storage, analysis and interpretation of data on persons with cancer. The cancer registry plays a central role in the systematic collection, recording and analysis of data relating to individuals with cancer For each such person it is the function of the registry to record, as fully and as accurately as may be possible, both a clinical description of the extent of the disease and information which will identify the patient, the tumor, the hospital and the clinicians involved with the case. The problems involved in collecting and analyzing cancer registry data in developing countries have been summarized by Olweny[22] and by WHO.[23]

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