Hospital discharge records as data source to monitor epidemiologic indicators of hematologic malignancies in Abruzzo.

CONCLUSIONS: Applying the cancer registries national rate, expected new diagnoses of HM in Abruzzo are about 620/year (46.4/100,000), compared to HDR estimates of 461 and 791/year (primary/all diagnoses fields: 58%). Since this percentage varies between 35% and 82%, our findings on the 2 methods seem useful for a validation process in the starting Cancer Registry. PMID: 26917409 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Tumori - February 29, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Tumori Source Type: research