Completeness of a newly implemented general cancer registry in northern France: Application of a three-source capture-recapture method

Completeness, timeliness and accuracy are important qualities for registries. The objective was to estimate the completeness of the first two years of full registration (2008/2009) of a new population-based general cancer registry, at the time of national data centralisation. Records followed international standards. Numbers of cases missed were estimated from a three-source (pathology labs, healthcare centres, health insurance services)...