To investigate this we compared regional interval cancer rates in the first and last years of the analysis period.
Variation in regional interval cancer rates was particularly notable in the earlier years, with more than a two-fold difference in rates.
The variation in regional interval cancer rates suggests that interval cancer rates reported in this analysis may be underestimated in some regions.
Coventry is the base for four different primary care trusts and the film-readers have links with multidisciplinary team meetings, breast care nurses, pathology and X-ray departments from all these areas, and are also involved with symptomatic mammography and local and regional interval cancer audits.
Although there has been much standardisation in regional methods of interval cancer case ascertainment, this variation may reflect continuing timeliness issues and differences in ascertainment, both in terms of cancer registration and exchanges between the Regional Cancer Registries and QARCs.
In the primary operable breast cancers, no significant associations were demonstrated with overall survival, disease-free interval, regional recurrence, the presence of distant metastases, age, menopausal status, oestrogen receptor status, histological grade, lymph node stage, vascular invasion and c-erbB-2 protein expression.
The addition of cisplatin to fractionated radiotherapy prolongs loco-regional progression-free interval and survival in stage III non-small cell lung cancer.
In this paper, we critically review the available echocardiographic techniques, their rationale, methods of quantification (time intervals, regional delays, and discoordination) and some of the unsolved issues that need to be addressed before echocardiography can be considered as a reliable tool to predict outcome after CRT.
Paleontological data point to a mosaic structure of landscapes, and suggest a temperate warm and humid climate in the south-western Baikal region during MIS 3 interval, with some regional deviations.
In the regional SARs, the Rancholabrean interval duration (∼140,000 years) is most similar to the Holocene interval duration (∼11,000 years), yet its species-richness values are indistinguishable from the time-intervals that measure in millions of years, except in one case, the Colorado Plateau.
In the Veneto region study the interval cancers were identified by linkage to the regional hospital discharge records.
