Value of hospital administrative data linked to national cancer registry records to identify metastatic disease at time of primary diagnosis in colorectal cancer patients: a study using national data in England
HAD should be linked to CR data to provide more accurate information on metastatic CRC at diagnosis including sites of metastasis. Linkage to HAD increased the number of patients identified with metastatic CRC by 14%, compared to CR data alone. Patients with metastatic disease at diagnosis in either data source had mortality outcomes expected for patients with metastatic cancer. CRC patients with missing metastasis data in CR data are likely to have metastatic disease and linkage to HAD provides important prognostic information.
Authors
- Brian Rous (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7619-461X)
- Linda D. Sharples (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-966X)
- Thomas E. Cowling (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1524-4393)
- Jan van der Meulen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9451-2335)
- Angela Kuryba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6607-2205)
- David Cromwell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6516-8125)
- Michael Braun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6666-4868)
- Julie Nossiter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8597-7624)
- Alex Lewin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0081-7582)
- Kate Walker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5392-6323)
- Orouba Almilaji (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0846-5393)
- Ajay Aggarwal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3157-7067)
- Kieran Horgan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4173-1777)
- Robert Arnott
Institutions
- Royal College of Surgeons of England (GB)
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- St James's University Hospital (GB)
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
- Faculty of Public Health (GB)
- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Cancer
- Published
- 2025-03-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-025-13777-x
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.05