Information support for colorectal cancer screening programme in the Czech Republic - overview of available data in 2000-2009

Abstract

This study documents that Czech Cancer Screening Programme is equipped with complex system for information support. The system includes Czech National Cancer Registry, dedicated cancer screening registry, and data warehouse of healthcare payers.

Keywords

• colorectal cancer mortality
• prevalence
• screening (organisation and management)
• incidence
• epidemiological methods
• epidemiological studies
• data collection
• occult blood
• colonocopy (statistics)
• age distribution