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Implications of incomplete registration of deaths on long-term survival estimates from population-based cancer registries
International Journal of Cancer, 05/12/09

Brenner H et al. - Every effort should be made in cancer registry based survival analyses to ascertain deaths with close to 100% completeness. When such completeness cannot be achieved, long-term relative survival estimates and their comparison across populations must be interpreted with much caution.

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