Abstract
For systematically assessing the burden of cancer and its trends, a sustainable population-based cancer registration is necessary. Since the establishment of population-based cancer registration in Germany in 1926 in Hamburg, the area coverage and completeness have been improved considerably. The German population-based cancer registries associated in the Society of the Epidemiologic Cancer Registry in Germany (GEKID) currently document cancer cases throughout Germany. For a population of roughly 40 million (approximately half of the German population) a complete registration of all malignant neoplasms has been accomplished. On this basis a number of 460,000 new cancer cases in Germany in the year 2007 can be estimated.
Translated title of the contribution | Epidemiologic cancer registration in Germany. Function and current status |
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Original language | German |
Journal | Onkologe |
Volume | 17 |
Issue number | 2 |
Pages (from-to) | 97-106 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISSN | 0947-8965 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 01.02.2011 |