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Trial Title:
Epidemiology of Uterine Cancer in Taiwan
NCT ID:
NCT01465737
Condition:
Uterine Cancers
Conditions: Official terms:
Uterine Neoplasms
Conditions: Keywords:
epidemiology
uterine cancer
Taiwan
Study type:
Observational
Overall status:
Unknown status
Study design:
Time perspective:
Retrospective
Intervention:
Intervention type:
Other
Intervention name:
Histologic types
Description:
evaluate survival among different histologic types
Arm group label:
Patients with uterine cancer
Summary:
Endometrial cancer is the second most common gynecologic cancer in Taiwan. Two types of
endometrial cancer may be distinguished by standard clinicopathologic criteria; type I
tumors are of low grade, endometrioid histology, estrogen related, and have a good
prognosis, whereas type II tumors are high grade, of non-endometrioid histologies,
unrelated to estrogen, and have a poor prognosis. Several clinicopathological parameters
were reported to correlate with prognosis of endometrial cancer including tumor FIGO
stage, cell type, cytological grading, depth of myometrial invasion, tumor size, lymph
node status, and etc. However, there is no epidemiologic data of endometrial cancer in
Taiwan. So the investigators propose this study to use Taiwan registry database provided
by Department of Health to analyze the epidemiology and prognosis of uterine cancer
patients in Taiwan.
Detailed description:
Study population To evaluate the epidemiology and prognosis of uterine cancer in Taiwan,
we will conduct a nationwide analysis through linking national cancer registry database.
Every citizen in Taiwan has a life-long identification number to link individual
information, including health status. The Taiwan household registry database provided by
Department of Health will be the source population. National household registry and death
certificate will be adopted to ascertain the live status of study subjects, and provided
individual demographic characteristics. All individual linkages between databases will be
conducted according to the study protocols, i.e. databases will be linked by
corresponding identification number, name (Chinese characters) and birthday, and all data
included in this study will be analyzed without individual identification information.
The agreement of utilizing the databases in the study was obtained from the Bureau of
Health Promotion in Taiwan.
Incident and death cases ascertainment Patients with uterine cancer, including uterine
carcinoma, uterine sarcoma ... etc., will be identified from computerized linkage to the
Taiwan national cancer registry with International Classification of Diseases for
Oncology Third Edition T-code C540-C543. Histological types will be identified from
morphology code in the cancer registry database. Women affected by uterine cancer and
found death due to uterine cancer (International Classification of Diseases 9th edition
code 182) in deaths certificate will be defined as death cases.
Statistical Analyses The numbers of person-years at risk of developing and dying for
uterine cancer will be calculated. Incidence rates will be calculated by dividing the
number of uterine cancer cases by the person-years at risk of developing uterine cancer.
Mortality rates will be calculated by dividing the number of uterine cancer deaths by the
person-years at risk of dying from uterine cancer. The association between mortality and
age, histology, time periods will be estimated through Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and
Cox's proportional hazards model. It is defined as significant difference statistically
when p value is less than 0.05.
Criteria for eligibility:
Study pop:
All uterine cancer patients in Taiwan between 1979-2008
Sampling method:
Non-Probability Sample
Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
- All uterine cancer patients in Taiwan between 1979-2008
Exclusion Criteria:
- nil
Gender:
Female
Minimum age:
N/A
Maximum age:
N/A
Healthy volunteers:
No
Locations:
Facility:
Name:
National Taiwan University Hospital
Address:
City:
Taipei
Zip:
100
Country:
Taiwan
Status:
Recruiting
Contact:
Last name:
Wen-Fang Cheng, Professor
Phone:
886-2-23123456
Phone ext:
71964
Email:
wenfangcheng@yahoo.com
Start date:
April 2011
Completion date:
April 2013
Lead sponsor:
Agency:
National Taiwan University Hospital
Agency class:
Other
Source:
National Taiwan University Hospital
Record processing date:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on November 12, 2024
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov page:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01465737