Population‐based cancer staging for oesophageal, gastric, and pancreatic cancer 2012‐2014: International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership SurvMark‐2

Cancer stage at diagnosis is important information for management and treatment of individual patients as well as in epidemiological studies to evaluate effectiveness of health care system in managing cancer patients. Population‐based studies to examine international disparities on cancer survival by stage, however, has been challenging due to the lack of international standardization on recording stage information and variation in stage...