Preferred Label : seer program;
MeSH definition : A cancer registry mandated under the National Cancer Act of 1971 to operate and maintain
a population-based cancer reporting system, reporting periodically estimates of cancer
incidence and mortality in the United States. The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and
End Results (SEER) Program is a continuing project of the National Cancer Institute
of the National Institutes of Health. Among its goals, in addition to assembling and
reporting cancer statistics, are the monitoring of annual cancer incident trends and
the promoting of studies designed to identify factors amenable to cancer control interventions.
(From National Cancer Institute, NIH Publication No. 91-3074, October 1990);
MeSH synonym : program, seer; seer program (national cancer institute (u.s.)); surveillance, epidemiology, and end results program;
MeSH annotation : CATALOGER: Use NAF entry;
Origin ID : D018426;
UMLS CUI : C0242638;
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A cancer registry mandated under the National Cancer Act of 1971 to operate and maintain
a population-based cancer reporting system, reporting periodically estimates of cancer
incidence and mortality in the United States. The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and
End Results (SEER) Program is a continuing project of the National Cancer Institute
of the National Institutes of Health. Among its goals, in addition to assembling and
reporting cancer statistics, are the monitoring of annual cancer incident trends and
the promoting of studies designed to identify factors amenable to cancer control interventions.
(From National Cancer Institute, NIH Publication No. 91-3074, October 1990)
