CORE--CANCER SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM

癌症监测计划（CSP）是一个快速确定 洛杉矶县基于人群的肿瘤登记。 所有 项目资助中描述的病例对照研究 应用程序，以及一系列单独资助的分析 年度总预算超过4000万美元的流行病学研究 百万美元，取决于CSP的案件识别。 资金 此应用程序所要求的将支持快速确定 CSP的组成部分。 1987年7月1日之后，我们预计， CSP的主要活动（提取、处理和分析 病历数据项是描述 流行病学）将由加州州资助。 主要 CSP的重点一直是并将继续是病因学 research. CSP的主要特点包括：（1） 人口基础的规模和多样性;（2）积极，而不是 被动监视;（3）最佳成本效益;（4） 案件侦破速度快。 后一个特征是最高的 CSP的优先级 通过最新的技术， 包括立即输入关于每年的最低限度数据集， 利用手提电脑作组织学诊断癌症新个案 所有外勤技术员都可使用微型计算机输入数据 目前，在一个月内完成了50%以上的案件确定工作 诊断和基本上100%完成2个月内。 的 基于活跃人群的快速确定功能有助于 这大大提高了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.