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- Title
Appropriate considerations of "rural" in National Cancer Data Base analyses.
- Authors
Zahnd, Whitney E.
- Abstract
I would like to commend Virostko and his colleagues for addressing the important topic of early-onset colorectal cancer trends in their recent article entitled "Recent Trends in the Age at Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer in the US National Cancer Data Base, 2004-2015", which was published in the November 1st edition of I Cancer i .[1] The authors examined data from the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB), a high-quality clinical surveillance database of cancers diagnosed at Commission on Cancer (CoC)-accredited hospitals that is inclusive of nearly 70% of all cancer cases diagnosed in the United States.[2] They found that the proportion of colorectal cancers diagnosed in individuals under the age of 50 years is increasing overall, within certain subgroups such as non-Hispanic white men and women and Hispanic women, and among urban populations. The American College of Surgeons data dictionary for the NCDB data indicates that counties with fewer than 2500 people are rural counties,[4] and this is the definition that the authors have applied.
- Subjects
DATABASES; DATA analysis; CANCER; CITY dwellers; RURAL population
- Publication
Cancer (0008543X), 2020, Vol 126, Issue 7, p1585
- ISSN
0008-543X
- Publication type
letter
- DOI
10.1002/cncr.32651