[The contribution of clinical cancer registries to benefit assessments: Requirements and first results].
Following the adoption of the Cancer Screening and Registry Act (KFRG) to advance the development of the early detection of cancer and to promote quality assurance through Clinical Cancer Registries according to Sect. 65c SGB V, the question is raised as to what extent population-based clinical cancer registries may contribute not only to direct patient treatment benefits, but also to the requirements of health research and to other issues such as, for example, the evaluation of the benefit of new pharmaceutical products. Efforts to improve a nationwide quality management for oncology have so far not been successful in the development of comprehensive documentation at all levels of care. New organizational structures such as population-based clinical cancer registries were supposed to solve this problem more sufficiently, but they must be accompanied by valid trans-sectorial documentation and evaluation of clinical data. The need for specific real-life outcomes (effectiveness) of specific therapies has led to calls for data from outside randomised clinical trials (efficacy). First results are demonstrated in the present article.
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Tumorzentren e. V., Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: monika.klinkhammer-schalke@ukr.de.
Monika
M
Klinkhammer-Schalke
Tumorzentrum Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
Ferdinand
F
Hofstädter
Tumorzentrum Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
Michael
M
Gerken
Klinik für Allgemeine-Viszeral- und Kinderchirurgie, Böblingen, Germany.
Stefan
S
Benz
D004282:Documentation; D055088:Early Detection of Cancer; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008495:Medical Oncology; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012042:Registries
Clinical cancer registries; Ergebnisqualität; Klinische Krebsregister; Nutzenbewertung; Qualitätssicherung; Versorgungsverbesserung; evaluation of benefit; improvement of healthcare systems; outcome quality; quality management