Editing Cancer registry (section)

=== Hospital cancer registry ===
Hospital cancer registries aim at the improvement of [[cancer therapy]], improve quality of care, evaluate adherence to guidelines, etc. They also serve as a source for epidemiological studies. Therefore, they have to collect detailed data about diagnosis, therapy, dates of important milestones in treatment, etc. Improvements can be achieved by:

* comparison of therapy – which therapy is the best for patients with similar characteristics
* comparison of therapists – which hospital, which physician has the best results under the same conditions ([[quality management]])
* evaluation of adherence to guidelines
* evaluation of timeliness of interventions (time to diagnosis, time to initiation of treatment, etc.) and their effect on prognosis
* support of treatment – registries can improve information about a patient and help to provide an optimal treatment by planning therapies and generating reminders