Publications by authors named "Angela Lopez-Cortes"
Article Synopsis
- The BENCHISTA project investigates how the stage at which childhood cancers are diagnosed affects survival rates across different regions, aiming to promote the use of Toronto Staging Guidelines by cancer registries.
- Participating cancer registries collected data on cases of specific cancers diagnosed from 2014-2017, while also gathering information on other prognostic factors and treatment outcomes.
- The project involved 67 cancer registries from 28 countries, with challenges in data sharing due to varying legal requirements, but ultimately resulted in a significant amount of standardized data for analysis.
Background: Several studies have shown significant variation in overall survival rates from childhood cancer between countries, using population-based cancer registry (PBCR) data for all cancers combined and for many individual tumour types among children. Without accurate and comparable data on Tumour stage at diagnosis, it is difficult to define the reasons for these survival differences. This is because measurement systems designed for adult cancers do not apply to children's cancers and cancer registries often hold limited information on paediatric tumour stage and the data sources used to define it.
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