Staging Errors in Prostatic Cancer
- 1 December 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 132 (6) , 1125-1126
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5347(17)50059-2
Abstract
There is some question on the accuracy of staging in large epidemiological studies of prostatic cancer that rely on hospital tumor registry data. In an effort to assess the accuracy of tumor registry information in an institution, registry staging was compared to surgical staging in 100 consecutive prostatic cancer patients. The tumor registry data had a 30% understaging error. Other institutions may have the same problems.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- The National Survey of Prostate Cancer in the United States by the American College of SurgeonsJournal of Urology, 1982