TY - JOUR AU - Jansen, Lina AU - Schröder, Chloé Josephine Charlotte AU - Emrich, Katharina AU - Holleczek, Bernd AU - Pritzkuleit, Ron AU - Brenner, Hermann TI - Disclosing progress in cancer survival with less delay. JO - International journal of cancer VL - 147 IS - 3 SN - 1097-0215 CY - Bognor Regis PB - Wiley-Liss M1 - DKFZ-2019-02860 SP - 838-846 PY - 2020 N1 - 2020 Aug 1;147(3):838-846#EA:C070#LA:C070# AB - Cancer registration plays a key role in monitoring the burden of cancer. However, cancer registry (CR) data are usually made available with substantial delay to ensure best possible completeness of case ascertainment. Here, we investigate empirically with routinely available data whether such a delay is mandatory for survival analyses or whether data can be used earlier to provide more up-to-date survival estimates. We compared distributions of prognostic factors and period relative survival estimates for three population-based CRs in Germany (Schleswig-Holstein (SH), Rhineland-Palatinate (RP), Saarland (SA)) computed on datasets extracted one (DY+1) to five years after the year of diagnosis (DY+5; reference). Analyses were conducted for seven cancer sites and various survival analyses scenarios. The proportion of patients registered in the datasets at a given time varied strongly across registries with 57 LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - pmid:31785152 DO - DOI:10.1002/ijc.32816 UR - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/148296 ER -