Milena Sant

..Screening for breast cancer did not seem to affect the survival patterns once stage had been taken into account...

..The affluence of countries influenced overall cancer survival through the availability of adequate diagnostic and treatment procedures, and screening programmes...

..Breast carcinoma survival rates were found to be higher in the U.S. than in Europe...

..In Estonia, low and stable survival in the context of increasing incidence and mortality suggests inadequate care...

..Significantly higher than reference HRs in Estonia and Poland suggest inadequacy or unavailability of treatments...

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..For all cancers, 5-year survival conditional to surviving 1-year was higher and varied less with region, than the overall relative survival...

..Differences in diagnostic and registration criteria are an important cause of incidence variation; however, different distribution of HM risk factors also contributes. The quality of population-based HM data needs further improvement...

..This report (EUROCARE-4) presents survival data for eight selected cancer sites and for all cancers combined, diagnosed in adult (aged >/=15 years) Europeans in 1995-99 and followed up until the end of 2003...

..S. To investigate these differences, the authors compared population-based HD survival in relation to morphologic type among populations in Europe and the U.S...

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..The aim of this study was to investigate the survival of women with breast cancer in relation to pre-diagnostic alcohol intake and other factors known to influence prognosis...

..Interpretation of marked variation in survival with morphology is complicated by classification inconsistencies. The completeness and standardisation of cancer registry morphology data needs to be improved...

..In this study, we estimate and analyze the prevalence of seven major cancers in Connecticut, lowa, and Utah using the tried and tested PREVAL method applied to National Cancer Institute registry data...

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..Improvements in the disease detection in its early stage and international collaborative research should be encouraged...

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..Overall mortality decreased during the period, more markedly in the north and among women...

..Cancer survival in patients <25 years is poorly documented in Eastern European countries. Complete cancer registration should be a priority for these countries as an essential part of a policy for effective cancer control in Europe...

..As a consequence, less resources of development aids are allocated to control NCDs including cancer...

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..Marked differences in population based survival across Europe were found for colorectal cancers diagnosed in 1985-1989...

..The persisting regional differences suggest there are corresponding differences in the availability of diagnostic and therapeutic facilities, and in the effectiveness of healthcare systems...

..Morphology and hormone receptor status were confirmed as significant survival predictors in this population-based study, even after adjusting for age and stage at diagnosis...

..These wide differences in breast cancer care across Europe in the early 1990s indicate a need for continual monitoring of past treatments to help ensure application of the most effective protocols...

..Low survival in the United Kingdom may be due to inadequate adherence to consensus treatment guidelines and greater variation in treatment...

..There was statistically significant effect related to the period of diagnosis, with a 50% reduction in the relative risk (RR) for children diagnosed in 1986--1989 compared with those diagnosed in 1978-1981...

..In 1987, about 250,000 Italian women had a present or past history of breast cancer: for the 1970-1987 period, prevalence has increased by approximately 5,500 cases per year...

..The prevalence of corpus uteri cancer decreased slightly in the elderly only, whereas that of cervix uteri cancer decreased at all ages...

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..CONCLUSION: Owing to aging of the population, the improvement in survival and the increasing incidence, the number of prevalent cases will increase. This phenomenon has and will have great importance for the health planning...

..This is, to our knowledge, the first worldwide analysis of cancer survival, with standard quality-control procedures and identical analytic methods for all datasets...

..Hormonal therapy with progesterone antagonists has shown modest results, while chemotherapy with hydroxyurea appears moderately active...

..We compared population-based liver cancer incidence and survival in European and U.S. populations in order to elucidate geographic differences and time trends for these variables...