The Hospital de Câncer de Barretos Registry: an analysis of cancer survival at a single institution in Brazil over a 10-year period

• Author(s): Carneseca, Estela Cristina ; Mauad, Edmundo Carvalho ; de Araujo, Marcos Aurélio Alves ; Dalbó, Rafael Macrina ; Longatto, Adhemar ; Vazquez, Vinicius de Lima
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/62140
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Aged; Brazil; Cancer Care Facilities; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Male; Middle Aged; Multivariate Analysis; Neoplasms; Prognosis; Proportional Hazards Models; Quality of Health Care; Retrospective Studies; Survival Rate; Registries; Cancer; Cancer hospital registry; Data quality; Descriptive study; Follow-up; Survival
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Universidade do Minho

Description

Epidemiological studies that describe cancer survival statistics at specific hospitals are scarce. Cancer registries, which are collections of cancer patient characteristics, treatment and outcome data, help determine quality of care and treatment indicators.