A Pilot Study of Cancer Surveillance in Central Illinois (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from A Pilot Study of Cancer Surveillance in Central Illinois<br/><br/>Illinois and which of several possible methods of case ascertainment wouldbe most effective. The three methods examined were: obtaining the case information from hospital discharge data, conducting a periodic sample sur vey of hospitals to obtain data and then estimate the incidence, and establishing a case registration program and state registry of all newly diagnosed cases. Based on the experience of others and our review of the feasibility of each approach, it was recommended that the case registration approach be subjected to further study. Beginning in November 1981, the Departments supported the Cancer Surveillance Pilot Study for East Central.

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