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Cancer Registries

The use of cancer registries to collect incident cases, tumor site, morphology, stage, first course of treatment and survival follow‑up.

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Feb 5, 2026

How do cancer registries and vaccine safety surveillance systems monitor for long‑term oncologic signals?

Cancer registries and operate on different strengths: registries provide high-quality, population‑level, long‑term incidence and survival data, while vaccine surveillance systems collect near‑real‑tim...

Jan 10, 2026

What evidence links refusal of conventional cancer treatment in favor of alternative therapies to survival outcomes?

Multiple large retrospective cohort studies find that patients who decline conventional cancer treatments and rely instead on alternative medicine have worse survival, in some analyses more than doubl...