An advisory committee on cancer registration has now been established

BMJ 1996;313:1149 (2 November)

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An advisory committee on cancer registration has now been established

EDITOR,--I was surprised that N E Day and T W Davies cast doubton whether the new purchasing arrangements would allow cancerregistries to achieve the standards laid down in the core contractspecification for cancer registries (sent to purchasers undercover of an executive letter ((96) 7) dated 9 February 1996)and by their call for a national body to oversee cancer registries.¹

The executive letter acknowledged the crucial role of cancerregistries in monitoring the implementation of national policieson preventing and treating cancer. It also emphasised theirimportance as a source of data for mapping geographical, social,and occupational trends in disease and mortality for regional,national, and international comparisons and the measurementof treatment outcomes, survival, and service effectiveness.The core contract proposed standards and targets for cancerregistration, which aim to maintain and strengthen the cancerregistration system, by raising those registries performingat the . . . [Full text of this article]

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