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Texas Department of State Health Services

TCR

The Texas Cancer Registry (TCR) operates in a two-tier system consisting of a central office and four regional registries. Approximately 140,000 reports of cancer are received annually from approximately 450 health facilities located throughout the state.The goals are: to collect cancer data and maintain a quality statewide population-based cancer registry with complete, timely and accurate data; to acheive and maintain recognition as a nationally certified cancer registry; and to meet the data needs of Texas healthcare practitioners, cancer researchers, health planners, the public and other state and national entities.

Incidence; Neoplasms; Population Surveillance; Residence Characteristics; Texas; Epidemiology

The mission of the Texas Cancer Registry (TCR) is to contribute significantly to the knowledge of cancer for use in reducing the cancer burden in Texas.

Sheps Center, UNC-CH

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