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Vet Comp Oncol. 2007 Sep;5(3):133-44. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5829.2007.00126.x.

Veterinary cancer registries in companion animal cancer: a review.

Veterinary and comparative oncology

L B Brønden, A Flagstad, A T Kristensen

Affiliations

  1. Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg, Denmark. [email protected]

PMID: 19754785 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5829.2007.00126.x

Abstract

Current and prior veterinary cancer registries are few in number and scattered. Different inclusion criteria, dissimilar collection methods and variable reference population estimation methods pose obstacles in the comparisons between veterinary and human cancer registries. Veterinary cancer registries have yielded information on the risk and incidence of different cancer types in certain breeds and geographical regions, as well as provided information on genetic and environmental risk factors in some cancers. The objective of this article is to review the prior and current veterinary cancer registries, the information they have contributed and to discuss different issues relating to their structure including inclusion criteria, study populations, reference populations utilized in evaluations, recorded variables and the outcome from these.

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