Applying engineering approaches and the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle, we launched dual quality improvement initiatives to ensure that a malignant diagnosis and stage were captured as structured data.

Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have launched a software tool that can collect and compare cancer staging data worldwide. A new software tool to capture worldwide cancer data has been ...

Determining cancer stage is a critical initial step in the care of patients with cancer. Knowing a patient's anatomic and nonanatomic staging data is essential both for prognostication and for ...

The tool has been developed by researchers from Queen’s University Belfast, the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry (NICR), the International Agency for Research on Cancer and the Union for International ...

The international staging system (ISS) for multiple myeloma (MM) is a validated alternative to the Durie–Salmon staging system (DSS) for predicting survival at diagnosis. We compared these staging ...