title: Prevalence of cancer in the elderly: discrepancies between self-reported and registry data.
abstract: Data on self-reported cancer by a sample of 3349 elderly persons in the south-west of France were validated against registry data in the same region: only 21% of the persons on the cancer registry reported occurrence of cancer. Breast cancer was found to be most frequently accurately reported.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Epidémiologie et de Sante Publique, Faculté de Médecine,Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Berthier
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Grosclaude
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bocquet
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Faliu
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cayla
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Machelard-Roumagnac
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D012042:Registries; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires