TY - JOUR
T1 - Paediatric cancer stage in population-based cancer registries
T2 - the Toronto consensus principles and guidelines
AU - Gupta, Sumit
AU - Aitken, Joanne F.
AU - Bartels, Ute
AU - Brierley, James
AU - Dolendo, Mae
AU - Friedrich, Paola
AU - Fuentes-Alabi, Soad
AU - Garrido, Claudia P.
AU - Gatta, Gemma
AU - Gospodarowicz, Mary
AU - Gross, Thomas
AU - Howard, Scott C.
AU - Molyneux, Elizabeth
AU - Moreno, Florencia
AU - Pole, Jason D.
AU - Pritchard-Jones, Kathy
AU - Ramirez, Oscar
AU - Ries, Lynn A G
AU - Rodriguez-Galindo, Carlos
AU - Shin, Hee Young
AU - Steliarova-Foucher, Eva
AU - Sung, Lillian
AU - Supriyadi, Eddy
AU - Swaminathan, Rajaraman
AU - Torode, Julie
AU - Vora, Tushar
AU - Kutluk, Tezer
AU - Frazier, A. Lindsay
PY - 2016/4/1
Y1 - 2016/4/1
N2 - Population-based cancer registries generate estimates of incidence and survival that are essential for cancer surveillance, research, and control strategies. Although data on cancer stage allow meaningful assessments of changes in cancer incidence and outcomes, stage is not recorded by most population-based cancer registries. The main method of staging adult cancers is the TNM classification. The criteria for staging paediatric cancers, however, vary by diagnosis, have evolved over time, and sometimes vary by cooperative trial group. Consistency in the collection of staging data has therefore been challenging for population-based cancer registries. We assembled key experts and stakeholders (oncologists, cancer registrars, epidemiologists) and used a modified Delphi approach to establish principles for paediatric cancer stage collection. In this Review, we make recommendations on which staging systems should be adopted by population-based cancer registries for the major childhood cancers, including adaptations for low-income countries. Wide adoption of these guidelines in registries will ease international comparative incidence and outcome studies.
AB - Population-based cancer registries generate estimates of incidence and survival that are essential for cancer surveillance, research, and control strategies. Although data on cancer stage allow meaningful assessments of changes in cancer incidence and outcomes, stage is not recorded by most population-based cancer registries. The main method of staging adult cancers is the TNM classification. The criteria for staging paediatric cancers, however, vary by diagnosis, have evolved over time, and sometimes vary by cooperative trial group. Consistency in the collection of staging data has therefore been challenging for population-based cancer registries. We assembled key experts and stakeholders (oncologists, cancer registrars, epidemiologists) and used a modified Delphi approach to establish principles for paediatric cancer stage collection. In this Review, we make recommendations on which staging systems should be adopted by population-based cancer registries for the major childhood cancers, including adaptations for low-income countries. Wide adoption of these guidelines in registries will ease international comparative incidence and outcome studies.
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U2 - 10.1016/S1470-2045(15)00539-2
DO - 10.1016/S1470-2045(15)00539-2
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84977475863
VL - 17
SP - e163-e172
JO - The Lancet Oncology
JF - The Lancet Oncology
SN - 1470-2045
IS - 4
ER -