Setting the record straight-Correcting uterine cancer incidence and mortality in the Nordic countries by reallocation of unspecified cases.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The incidence of and mortality from cancers of the cervix uteri and corpus uteri are underestimated if the presence of uterine cancers, where the exact topography (site of origin) is not specified, is omitted. In this paper we present the corrected figures on mortality from and incidence of cervix and corpus uteri cancers in the Nordic countries by reallocating unspecified uterine cancer deaths and cases to originate either from the corpus uteri or cervix uteri. To further validate the accuracy of reallocation, we also analyzed how well the reallocation captures the changes occurring as the result of a transition in cause of death coding in Norway that took place in 2005.

Material and methods

This study uses data available in the NORDCAN database, which contains

SUBMITTER: Partanen VM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9564732 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature