Nimptsch, Katharina and Jaeschke, Lina and Chang-Claude, Jenny and Kaaks, Rudolf and Katzke, Verena and Michels, Karin B. and Franzke, Claus-Werner and Obi, Nadia and Becher, Heiko and Kuss, Oliver and Schikowski, Tamara and Schulze, Matthias B. and Gastell, Sylvia and Hoffmann, Wolfgang and Schipf, Sabine and Ahrens, Wolfgang and Guenther, Kathrin and Krist, Lilian and Keil, Thomas and Joeckel, Karl-Heinz and Schmidt, Boerge and Brenner, Hermann and Holleczek, Bernd and Fischer, Beate and Leitzmann, Michael and Lieb, Wolfgang and Berger, Klaus and Krause, Gerard and Loeffler, Markus and Schmidt-Pokrzywniak, Andrea and Mikolajczyk, Rafael and Linseisen, Jakob and Greiser, Karin Halina and Pischon, Tobias (2020) Self-reported cancer in the German National Cohort (NAKO Gesundheitsstudie): assessment methods and first results. BUNDESGESUNDHEITSBLATT-GESUNDHEITSFORSCHUNG-GESUNDHEITSSCHUTZ, 63 (4). pp. 385-396. ISSN 1436-9990, 1437-1588
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Background In the German National Cohort (NAKO Gesundheitsstudie), the largest prospective cohort study in Germany, data on self-reported cancer diagnoses are now available for the first half of participants. Objectives Description of the methods to assess self-reported cancer diagnoses and type of cancer in the NAKO and presentation of first results. Materials and methods In a computer-assisted, standardized personal interview, 101,787 participants (54,526 women, 47,261 men) were asked whether they had ever been diagnosed with cancer (malignant tumors including in situ) by a physician and how many cancer diagnoses they had. The type of cancer was classified with a list. Absolute and relative frequencies of self-reported cancer diagnoses and types of cancer were calculated and compared with cancer registry data. Results A physician-diagnosed cancer was reported by 9.4% of women and 7.0% of men. Of the participants who reported a cancer diagnosis, 88.3% reported to have had only one cancer diagnosis. In women, the most frequent malignancies were breast cancer, cervical cancer, and melanoma. In men, the most frequent malignancies were prostate cancer, melanoma, and colorectal cancer. Comparing the frequencies of cancer diagnoses reported by 45- to 74-year-old NAKO participants within the last five years to cancer registry-based 5-year prevalences, most types of cancer were less frequent in the NAKO, with the exception of melanoma in men and women, cervical cancer and liver cancer in women, and bladder cancer and breast cancer in men. Conclusions The NAKO is a rich data basis for future investigations of incident cancer.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | VOLUNTEER; RECRUITMENT; PREVALENCE; Cancer; Self-report; Cohort study; Epidemiology; Germany |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Institut für Epidemiologie und Präventivmedizin > Lehrstuhl für Genetische Epidemiologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Mar 2021 08:16 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Mar 2021 08:16 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/44927 |
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