NBCC Breast Cancer Specific Data Item for Clinical Cancer Registration

29 Aug 2007
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In its December 1997 report, National Cancer Control and Implementation, the National Cancer Control Initiative (NCCI) identified important gaps in cancer-data availability for cancer control in Australia.

In response, a consultative process was arranged involving key stakeholders, which resulted in the development of a data set for clinical cancer registration. Data items covered by the data set were subsequently refined and included in Australia's National Health Data Dictionary (NHDD).

This was a core data set directed at all cancers. It represented a compromise between collecting excessive detail that would be unsustainable, and undue brevity that would not be informative. The purpose was to provide a guide, such that clinical data sets around Australia would include similar items and definitions, thereby facilitating comparative analysis, and where appropriate, data pooling for rare sub-types of cancers.

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