title: [Development of registries].
abstract: Cancer registration took place in Italy in the first half of the Seventies with only one Cancer Registry in the province of Varese. More recently several cancer registries started their activity attaining population coverage of approximately 18% of the national population. The contribution from a network of cancer registries in Italy to the activity of cancer research and control is discussed in view of an improved exploitation of this tool.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Oncologiche e Chirurgiche Università degli Studi di Padova.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Simonato
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012042:Registries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*