title: [Cancer registration in the Faeroe Islands].
abstract: The main purpose was to establish a cancer registry which could provide data for the treatment and control of cancer in the Faroe Islands. The registry should also be useful for epidemiological research in the future to pinpoint causes of cancer. The initiation of the registry is a result of a workgroup with members from the Faroes Hospital and Health System and from the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology at the Danish Cancer Society. The data items collected in the Faroes registry are identical with the data items in the Danish Cancer Registry. To provide a basis for the registry we have performed a retrospective data collection identifying all cancer cases in the Faroes for the 15 year period 1979-1993. All hospital records and death certificates in the period were scrutinized. The official initiation of the Faroes cancer registry was on 1, January 1994.
authors.affiliation: H:S Rigshospitalet, Finsencentret, onkologisk fagområde, Sygehus- og sundhedsvaesenet på Faerøerne.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dalberg
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Jacobsen
authors.forename: H H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Storm
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Egholm
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Niclasen
authors.forename: H D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Joensen
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Weihe
mesh_terms: D003718:Denmark / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012042:Registries; D012189:Retrospective Studies
vernacular_title: Cancerregistrering på Faerøerne.