caa a22 4500 477129129 CHVBK 20180405111658.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19970701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1018494313389 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1018494313389 Risk factor information found in medical records of lung and prostate cancer cases, New Mexico Tumor Registry (United States) [Elektronische Daten] [Frank Gilliland, Muree Larson, Ann Chao] The conduct of public health surveillance and epidemiologicinvestigations would be enhanced by a cost-effective method for thecollection of population-based cancer risk-factor data. We assessed thefeasibility of ascertaining such data from hospital medical records duringroutine abstraction of information from a cancer registry. We examined themedical records of a representative sample of prostate and lung cancer casesdiagnosed during 1992 and 1993 from the New Mexico (United States) TumorRegistry (NMTR) database. Registry personnel abstracted ancillary informationfrom the medical records of 575 prostate and 273 lung cancer cases. Ofmedical records from 848 cases, 90 percent documented a history of tobaccouse, 77 percent contained any family medical history, and 48 percentdocumented occupational information sufficient to allow coding into standardoccupational groups. Availability of occupation and industry varied bypatient ethnicity, age at diagnosis, marital status , and type of hospital,indicating the potential for bias in studies using occupational informationfrom medical records. Our findings suggest that risk factor informationabstracted from medical records may provide valuable information for publichealth surveillance, but is generally too incomplete to serve as a singlesource of exposure information for etiologic studies. Family histories inmedical records may be sufficient for population-based ascertainment ofaffected relative pairs for genetic epidemiology studies for some cancertypes. Chapman and Hall, 1997 Family medical history nationallicence lung cancer nationallicence medical records nationallicence prostate cancer nationallicence smoking nationallicence Gilliland Frank Department of Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, USA aut Larson Muree Epidemiology and Cancer Control Program of the Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, USA aut Chao Ann Epidemiology and Cancer Control Program of the Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, USA aut Cancer Causes & Control Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/4(1997-07-01), 598-604 0957-5243 8:4<598 1997 8 10552 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018494313389 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018494313389 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gilliland Frank Department of Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Larson Muree Epidemiology and Cancer Control Program of the Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chao Ann Epidemiology and Cancer Control Program of the Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cancer Causes & Control Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/4(1997-07-01), 598-604 0957-5243 8:4<598 1997 8 10552 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer