Ramathibodi Hospital-based cancer registry: RCR
Ramathibodi Cancer Registry (RCR) is a hospital-based cancer registry that collects incidence and survival data on all cancer patients who reside or who are diagnosed and/or treated for cancer in Ramathibodi Hospital. Cancer registry is essential for optimal patient care, evaluation, cancer program planning and management, administrative planning, and education.
Historical background
- Established in 1982.
- Entered the new era, forming cancer registry committee in 2007
- Began creating and using the registry program in 2008
Purpose of the registry
The Ramathibodi Cancer Registry (RCR) is a hospital-based cancer registry. The epidemiology including incidence and survival data of all cancer patients who are diagnosed and/or treated for cancer in the Ramathibodi hospital are collocated. The goods of the RCR are to:
- determine the incidence of cancer in Ramathibodi hospital with demographic and social characteristics.
- evaluate the outcome including the survival and prognostic factors affecting the survival and mortality.
- provide data in planning effectively plan services, measure prevention and intervention strategies.
- provide a database and serve as a resource in conducting epidemiologic studies.
- provide data to assist public health officers and hospital administrators in planning health policy.
Who can harvest from Ramathibodi Hospital-based cancer registry?
Executive, Administrator
- Monitor cancer trends over time
- Determine cancer patterns in various populations
- Prioritize problems
- To direct the policy
- Guide planning and evaluation of cancer control programs
- Cost – effectiveness assessment
- Set priorities for allocating health resources
Clinician, Nurse, Health Personnel
- Teaching (cancer registry data, including patterns of care and length of survival, is used to further the education of physicians, nurses and other health care providers)
- Research (advance clinical, epidemiologic, and health services research, to learn more about how and why people get cancer, and how it can be treated)
- Publication
- Health service providing
- Improve treatment outcome
Patient
The improvement of cancer therapy. Which can be achieved by:
- comparison of therapy - which therapy is the best
- comparison of therapists - therapists has the best results under the same conditions (quality management)
Support of treatment - registries can improve information about a patient and help to provide an optimal treatment by planning therapies and generating reminders
Society
- Obtain information for a national database of cancer incidence and epidemiology
- Use cancer data to support cancer prevention and control programs
- Leads to the better treatment and better outcome
- Provide data of cancer to the society