Rotterdam Oncology Documentation (RONCDOC) - a high-quality data warehouse and tissue collection for head and neck cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Every year, almost 900.000 people are diagnosed with head and neck cancer (HNC) worldwide. HNC contains many different subsites and a large variability in tumor biology. This often results in small and/or heterogeneous study populations. Developing overarching databases is an efficient solution to collect and analyze data of these smaller subsets of patients and to facilitate data sharing among research groups. The few existing large databases often include only basic characteristics. In addition, hospital-based cohorts that include more variables are often not collected consecutively, resulting in selection bias. Therefore, we established a hospital-based cancer registry system "Rotterdam Oncology Documentation" (RONCDOC), a complete and consecutive data warehouse and t

SUBMITTER: Hoesseini A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12032767 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature