Original scientific paper

CANCER REGISTRY OF LARYNGECTOMIZED PERSONS IN CROATIA

BLAŽENKA PAVLIĆ orcid.org/0000-0001-8711-741X ; Karlovac General Hospital and School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, University Study of Nursing, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Cancer poses a major problem in the population of Croatia. Owing to Professor Živko Kulčar, who founded Cancer Registry at the Institute of Public Health in 1959, statistical data on patients with malignant cancer, including information on the entire territory of the Republic of Croatia, are available. The Act on Official Statistics (Official Gazette 103/2003) and Annual Implementation Plan regulate data recording in Cancer Registry, which is performed by the County Public Health Institutes that control the volume and quality of registration, after which the information is forwarded to the Croatian National Public Health Institute. If information and statistical data are needed for public health or scientific research purposes, one should approach Cancer Registry, having previously filled out a form for aggregated or individual information. However, when requesting information about individuals having undergone laryngectomy, such information is not available. If information about individuals having undergone laryngectomy is needed, e.g., how many of such individuals there are out there, when, where and how they are treated, or their demographic characteristics, such information unfortunately is not available. Therefore, establishment of the registry of patients who have undergone laryngectomy is proposed, which would be maintained by nurses working at ENT departments.

Keywords

Cancer Registry; cancer; laryngectomy

Hrčak ID:

117954

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/117954

Publication date:

19.3.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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