Breast Cancer

Variability in Cancer Registration in U.K. May Distort Statistics

Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 3rd, 2000

Variations in the way breast cancer is registered in U.K. hospitals is leading to missed cases and, as a result, may be distorting national cancer statistics - currently a principal means of identifying cancer "black spots" around the country, according to a study in the July 20, 2000, issue of the British Medical Journal.

Researchers in Leicestershire compared breast cancer records for 1997 at Trent Cancer Registry with a local hospital database. They found that the recorded date of diagnosis was, on average, 26 days earlier on the hospital database than the date of registration, and 70 patients were assigned to a previous year. By the end of 1998, 134...

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