Fremgen A M, Bland K I, McGinnis L S, Eyre H J, McDonald C J, Menck H R, Murphy G P
Commission on Cancer, American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL, USA.
CA Cancer J Clin. 1999 May-Jun;49(3):145-58. doi: 10.3322/canjclin.49.3.145.
The National Cancer Data Base (NCDB), a joint project of the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons and the American Cancer Society, collects and analyzes data from a wide variety of sources throughout the United States, including small community hospitals. Due to this unique reporting system, individual facilities can compare their own data with the aggregate data from the NCDB, using their findings to evaluate local patient care practices. This article highlights the principal findings of the NCDB and Patient Care Evaluation articles published in 1998 on breast, prostate, cervical, endometrial, gallbladder, head and neck, nasopharyngeal, rectal, thyroid, and vaginal cancers, as well as on melanoma, brain tumors, and Hodgkin's disease. With more than five million cancer cases in the NCDB for the years between 1985 and 1995, sufficient numbers of even rare cancers have been accrued to permit some types of epidemiologic and clinical assessments.
美国国立癌症数据库（NCDB）是美国外科医师学会癌症委员会和美国癌症协会的联合项目，它收集并分析来自美国各地多种来源的数据，包括小型社区医院的数据。由于这种独特的报告系统，各个医疗机构可以将自己的数据与NCDB的汇总数据进行比较，并利用这些结果来评估当地的患者护理实践。本文重点介绍了1998年发表的关于乳腺癌、前列腺癌、宫颈癌、子宫内膜癌、胆囊癌、头颈癌、鼻咽癌、直肠癌、甲状腺癌和阴道癌，以及黑色素瘤、脑肿瘤和霍奇金病的NCDB和患者护理评估文章的主要发现。在1985年至1995年期间，NCDB中有超过500万例癌症病例，即使是罕见癌症也积累了足够数量的数据，从而可以进行某些类型的流行病学和临床评估。
