CanStaging+: an electronic staging tool for population-based cancer registries

Abstract

At the population level, staging provides useful information on health system performance relevant to a broad range of cancer control activities, including evaluation and monitoring of the impact of health campaigns, screening programmes, and cancer management. The collection of population-based staging data is undertaken by population-based cancer registries (PBCRs), which assign stage at diagnosis for each of the residents of the catchment population based on data from multiple clinical sources using internationally agreed rules. [...]it also includes childhood cancer staging according to the Toronto Paediatric Cancer Stage Guidelines.