CORE--CANCER SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM

癌症监测计划(CSP)是一种快速确定 洛杉矶县基于人群的肿瘤登记。全 《计划项目赠款》中描述的病例对照研究 应用，以及一系列单独资助的分析 年度预算总额超过4项的流行病学研究 百万美元，依赖于CSP的案件识别。基金 此应用程序所请求的将支持快速确定 CSP的组成部分。在1987年7月1日之后，我们预计另一次 CSP的主要活动(提取、处理和分析 病历数据项是描述所必需的 流行病学)将由加利福尼亚州资助。少校 CSP的重点一直是，并将继续是病因学 研究。CSP的主要特点包括(1) 人口基数的大小和多样性；(2)积极的，相对的 被动监视；(3)最佳成本效益；(4) 案件查清速度快。后一个特征是最高的 CSP的优先级。通过上一年推出的新技术 年，包括立即输入每一年的最小数据集 使用笔记本电脑进行组织学诊断的新癌症病例 所有现场技术人员均可使用微型计算机进行数据输入 病例确诊现已在一个月内完成50%以上 基本100%在2个月内完成。这个 基于活跃种群的快速确定特征贡献 极大地提高了由该机构进行的病例对照研究的质量 程序。

The Cancer Surveillance Program (CSP) is a rapid ascertainment population based tumor registry for Los Angeles County. All case-control studies described in the Program Project Grant application, as well as a series of separately funded analytic epidemiologic studies with total annual budgets exceeding 4 million dollars, depend on the CSP for case identification. Funds requested by this application will support the rapid ascertainment component of the CSP. After July 1, 1987, we expect the other major CSP activities (abstracting, processing, and analysis of the medical record data items which are essential to descriptive epidemiology) to be funded by the State of California. The major focus of the CSP has always been and will continue to be etiologic research. The major distinctive features of the CSP include (1) the size and diversity of the population base; (2) active as opposed to passive surveillance; (3) optimum cost-effectiveness; and (4) rapidity of case ascertainment. The latter feature is the highest priority of the CSP. Through new techniques initiated in the last year, including immediate entry of a minimal data set on each new histologically diagnosed cancer case using lap-top microcomputers available to all Field Technicians for data entry case ascertainment is now over 50% complete within one month of diagnosis and essentially 100% complete within 2 months. The active population-based rapid ascertainment feature contributes greatly to the quality of case-control studies done by this program.