Department of Health Information Technology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
Research Article
Providing Suggested Rules for Multiple Primary Cancer Recording, Coding and Registering in Population Based Cancer Registry
Author(s): Mohammad Hossein Somi, Roya Dolatkhah*, Iraj Asvadi Kermani, Sepideh Sepahi, Narges Youzbashi, Marzieh Nezamdoust and Behnoush Abedi-Ardekani
Objective: Multiple Primary Cancers (MPC) present many coding difficulties, while a distinction should
be made between new cases and those with metastasis and/or extension and recurrence of the
primary ones. We aimed to reflect on the experiences and results of data quality control of the East
Azerbaijan/Iran population-based cancer registry and present our suggested rules for reporting,
recording and registering multiple primary cancers.
Methods: Comparability, validity, timeliness, and completeness of data assessment were performed.
We followed the established “rules for reporting incidence and survival". However, in some cases, we
could not find any related data in published and established rules. As a result, we created an expert
panel as a consulting team including expert oncologists, pathologists, and gast.. View More»
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