The establishment of KORCC (KOrean Renal Cell Carcinoma) database.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The purpose of this article is to report establishment of the 1st Web-based database (DB) system to collect renal cell carcinoma (RCC) data in Korea.

Materials and methods

The new Web-based DB system was established to collect basic demographic and clinicopahtological characteristics of a large cohort of patients with RCC in Korea. Data from a total of 6,849 patients were collected from 8 tertiary care hospitals that agreed to participate in organizing the Korean Renal Cell Carcinoma (KORCC) study group as of 1 July 2015. Basic demographic and clinicopathological characteristics were collected. The data of patients who underwent surgical treatments were analyzed to characterize Korean RCC.

Results

We established the 1st Web-based DB of Korean RCC, a database c

SUBMITTER: Byun SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4778757 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature