Prevalence of cancer in the elderly: discrepancies between self-reported and registry data
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- 1 February 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in British Journal of Cancer
- Vol. 75 (3) , 445-447
- https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.1997.74
Abstract
Data on self-reported cancer by a sample of 3349 elderly persons in the south-west of France were validated against registry data in the same region: only 21% of the persons on the cancer registry reported occurrence of cancer. Breast cancer was found to be most frequently accurately reported.Keywords
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