Mortality from malignant neoplasms in Crete, 1992-1993

摘要

This first international report briefly summa- rises the causes of cancer mortality from the first two years (1992-1993) of the population based Cancer Registry of Crete (CRC), Greece. In the absence of a national or local health information network, a peripatetic approach to data collection was used. All relevant information about cancer patients was abstracted from multiple sources: records and departments, including pathology laboratories, of 11 public hospitals and all private clinics; Health Insurance Funds and Public Health Division Offices of the Ministry of Health; and Death Registries.