Staging discrepancies between Hospital-Based Cancer Registry and Diagnosis Procedure Combination data

Affiliations

• ¹ Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo.
• ² Division of Cancer Surveillance, National Cancer Center, Tokyo.
• ³ Department of Comprehensive Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga.
• ⁴ University of Ryukyus Cancer Center, Okinawa.
• ⁵ Department of Urology, Ibaraki Prefectural Central Hospital, Kasama, Ibaraki.
• ⁶ Department of Surgery, Nagahama City Hospital, Nagahama, Shiga.
• ⁷ Division of Health Services Research, Center for Cancer Control and Information Services, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan [email protected].