title: Uses of a population-based cancer registry.
abstract: There is a wide variety of uses of population-based cancer registries from a purely descriptive to analytic, hypothesis testing. For these registries to continue to exist, they must continue to provide a service to the public and new information in the medical community.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics-Gynecology and Epidemiology, University of Washington.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chu
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012042:Registries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology