Augmenting cancer registry data with health survey data with no cases in common: the relationship between pre-diagnosis health behaviour and post-diagnosis survival in oesophageal cancer

Augmenting cancer registry data with health survey data with no cases in common: the relationship between pre-diagnosis health behaviour and post-diagnosis survival in oesophageal cancer

Abstract Background For epidemiological research, cancer registry datasets often need to be augmented with additional data. Data linkage is not feasible when there are no cases in common between data sets. We present a novel approach to augmenting cancer registry data by imputing pre-diagnosis healt...

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Main Authors: Paul P. Fahey, Andrew Page, Glenn Stone, Thomas Astell-Burt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-06-01
Series:BMC Cancer
Subjects:
Cancer registries
Alcohol drinking
Oesophageal neoplasms
Exercise
Obesity
Tobacco smoking
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-020-06990-3

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