Medscape

Flawed PSA Data in SEER Make Past Studies Suspect

When the National Cancer Institute (NCI) removed all prostate-specific antigen (PSA) data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) and SEER-Medicare programs, it rendered many of ...
Renal & Urology News

PSA Error in the SEER Database Lower Than Suspected

Actor and comedian Ben Stiller announced that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer at the age of 48 The error rate due to the implied decimal point used for prostate ...
Fred Hutch

Cancer database for Washington state and national SEER registry renewed for up to 10 years

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s award-winning Cancer Surveillance System database, or CSS, which folds into the larger national cancer registry, the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Urologist Evaluates Implications of the Removal of Flawed SEER PSA Data

Large data sets like SEER need better quality control checks and researchers and clinicians who use these data sets should also consider using secondary data analyses that answer specific research ...
Business Wire

Castle Biosciences Collaborates with the National Cancer Institute to Link DecisionDx®-Melanoma Testing Data with SEER Registries’ Cutaneous Melanoma Cases

Analysis of the first subset of linked SEER patient data demonstrates DecisionDx®-Melanoma testing was associated with improved overall survival rates compared to untested patients DecisionDx-Melanoma ...
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Updated SEER database study of 21-gene assay to assess breast cancer–specific mortality and benefit of chemotherapy by race and ethnicity.

Dose-dense adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with HER2-low early breast cancer: An exploratory analysis of the GIM2 trial. Cost consequence model of the MammaPrint (70-gene signature) and 21-gene ...
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Veracyte Announces Decipher Prostate Genomic Classifier Results are Linked to Real-World Data in National Cancer Institute’s SEER Specialized Database Release

Veracyte, Inc., a leading cancer diagnostics company, today announced that data from its market-leading Decipher Prostate Genomic Classifier are available in a new specialized database that the ...
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The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Results Program Database as a Resource for Conducting Descriptive Epidemiologic and Clinical Studies

IN THIS issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Anderson et al 1 analyze data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Results (SEER) Program to determine whether inflammatory breast cancer ...