[Application of capture-recapture method in the malignant tumor death registry].

Objective: To estimate the number of death from malignant tumor and to assess the completeness of cancer registry data using the capture-recapture method.

Methods: Data about death form malignant tumor were collected during the period of 2004 and 2005 from cancer registry, civil administration and police registries in Linzhou. Cases in every source were matched on the address, name, sex, ID card, date of death, cause of death.