Steele G D, Winchester D P, Menck H R
Department of Surgery, New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Cancer. 1994 Jan 15;73(2):499-504. doi: 10.1002/1097-0142(19940115)73:2<499::aid-cncr2820730241>3.0.co;2-t.
A mechanism for cancer patient care assessment was created. Data evaluations will enable clinicians and hospital staffs to appraise trends and compare their results with state, regional, and national figures.
Data are collected annually on all forms of cancer from all parts of the country, including patient characteristics, tumor characteristics, first-course treatment, and follow-up.
Data for one or more years were received from a total of 1071 hospitals. This large, convenience sample of United States cancers included approximately 220,000 cases from 1985, 272,000 cases from 1988, and 409,000 cases from 1990. The seven most commonly reported cancers were breast, lung, prostate, colon, cervix, bladder, and rectum. In a 1993 National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) Annual Review, several disease categories and special subjects were analyzed, including colorectal, breast, and prostate cancer, melanoma, cancer in children and adolescents, cancer in hispanics, time trends in TNM staging, as well as NCDB data quality and hospital participation.
A multipurpose partnership between the NCDB and the Cancer Liaison Physician Network of the Commission on Cancer will be formed at the state and local level to promote NCDB participation as well as to disseminate the NCDB clinical findings. Additional sites will be covered in Annual Reviews, and highlights of those reports will be provided to Liaison Physicians of the Commission who are actively involved in the care of cancer patients to inform them of the latest findings.
建立了癌症患者护理评估机制。数据评估将使临床医生和医院工作人员能够评估趋势，并将他们的结果与州、地区和国家数据进行比较。
每年收集来自全国所有地区的各种癌症数据，包括患者特征、肿瘤特征、首次治疗和随访情况。
共收到来自1071家医院的一年或多年的数据。这个来自美国癌症的大型便利样本包括1985年的约220,000例、1988年的272,000例和1990年的409,000例。报告最多的七种癌症是乳腺癌、肺癌、前列腺癌、结肠癌、宫颈癌、膀胱癌和直肠癌。在1993年的《国家癌症数据库（NCDB）年度回顾》中，分析了几个疾病类别和特殊主题，包括结直肠癌、乳腺癌和前列腺癌、黑色素瘤、儿童和青少年癌症、西班牙裔癌症、TNM分期的时间趋势，以及NCDB数据质量和医院参与情况。
将在州和地方层面建立NCDB与癌症委员会癌症联络医师网络之间的多用途合作关系，以促进NCDB的参与，并传播NCDB的临床研究结果。年度回顾将涵盖更多领域，并将这些报告的要点提供给积极参与癌症患者护理的委员会联络医师，以便他们了解最新研究结果。
