Burden of gastrointestinal cancers and problem of the incomplete information; how to make up the data?

Abdolhamid Sharifian; Mohamad Amin Pourhoseingholi; Ahmadreza Baghestani; Nastaran Hajizadeh; Sepideh Gholizadeh

Burden of gastrointestinal cancers and problem of the incomplete information; how to make up the data?

Gastroenterol Hepatol Bed Bench. 2016 Winter;9(1):12-7.

Authors

Abdolhamid Sharifian¹, Mohamad Amin Pourhoseingholi², Ahmadreza Baghestani³, Nastaran Hajizadeh³, Sepideh Gholizadeh²

Affiliations

¹ Gandy General Hospital, Tehran, Iran.
² Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
³ Department of Biostatistics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

PMID: 26744609
PMCID: PMC4702036

Abstract

Cancer registration is an important source for measuring the burden of cancer in a population. In practice, however, quite frequently incorrect patients are registered or data items can be inaccurately recorded or not recorded at all. Also the process or quality of these registrations varies among countries. In this paper, we briefly discussed some statistical techniques including; Mortality and Incidence Analysis Model (MIAMOD), Prevalence and Incidence Analysis Model (PIAMOD), Bayesian Inference and Capture-recapture methods, which provide tools to re-correct the incomplete or misclassified cancer statistics with regards to gastrointestinal cancers.

Keywords: Burden; Gastrointestinal cancers; Incidence; Mortality; Registration.

Publication types

Review