title: Mapping the journey of cancer patients through the health care system. Part 3: An approach to staging.
abstract: This is the third in a series of articles relating results from a line of research whose intent was to construct a complete history of patient interactions with the health care system using available data sources for all patients diagnosed in 1990 with a primary breast, colorectal, or lung tumour in Manitoba. This article presents details of the development and application of methods to produce TNM staging data on the roughly 2,000 patients in this population. The operational definitions constructed for this research can be adapted for other tumour sites and data sources. Findings include methods developed to overcome the sometimes ambiguous and inconsistent available documentation, which ultimately produced reliable TNM staging data. Survival data for this population by stage of disease are given.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, University of Manitoba.
authors.forename: Jeff A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Sloan
authors.forename: Shannon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Scott-Findlay
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nemecek
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Blood
authors.forename: Cheryl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Trylinski
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Whittaker
authors.forename: Samy
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: El Sayed
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Clinch
authors.forename: Kong
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Khoo
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008350:Manitoba / Q000453:epidemiology; D008499:Medical Records; D009367:Neoplasm Staging / Q000379:methods*; D015996:Survival Rate; D009626:Terminology as Topic