A multisource approach to improving epidemiologic estimates: application to global B-cell malignancies.

ABSTRACT: The compilation of comprehensive, worldwide epidemiologic data can inform hypotheses on cancer etiology and guide future drug development. These statistics are reported by a multitude of sources using varying methods; thus, compiling a complete database of these statistics is a challenge. To this end, this paper examined the usefulness of a novel, multisource approach-extracting data from the peer-reviewed literature, online reports, and query systems from cancer registries and health agencies and directly contacting cancer registry personnel-for building a comprehensive, multinational epidemiologic cancer database. The major B-cell malignancies were chosen as the cancer subtype to test this approach largely because their epidemiology has not been well characterized in the peer-reviewed li

SUBMITTER: Mitchell ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3549359 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature