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WORLDWIDE<br />

ORGANIZATIONS<br />

IACR International Association of <strong>Cancer</strong> Registries: A voluntary non-governmental<br />

organization established in 1970 to represent the scientific and professional<br />

interests of cancer registries interested in the development and application of<br />

cancer registration and morbidity survey techniques to studies of well-defined<br />

populations.<br />

IARC International Agency <strong>for</strong> Research on <strong>Cancer</strong>: Established in 1965 within the<br />

framework of the World Health Organization (WHO), IARC is dedicated to<br />

research on cancer, particularly epidemiology of cancer and study of potential<br />

carcinogens in the human environment.<br />

UICC International Union Against <strong>Cancer</strong> (Union Internationale Contre le <strong>Cancer</strong>): An<br />

organization established to monitor cancer throughout the world. It disseminates<br />

current knowledge of cancer, its prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment,<br />

rehabilitation, and continuing care as well as knowledge in basic and clinical cancer<br />

research. It was first in the development of the TNM Clinical Staging<br />

Classification in the early 1950's, one of its many accomplishments.<br />

WHO World Health Organization: A United Nations organization established to monitor<br />

world health. It divides the world into seven regions with a headquarters in each<br />

region.<br />

PUBLICATIONS<br />

AND ON-LINE DATA BASES<br />

ACTUR The Automated Central Tumor Registry System: A Department of<br />

Defense automated central tumor registry system established by the<br />

Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) <strong>for</strong> Army,<br />

Navy, and Air Force hospitals (on-line data base).<br />

ICD-O The International Classification of Diseases <strong>for</strong> Oncology: The ICD-O,<br />

First Edition (1976), (published by WHO) permits coding of all neoplasms<br />

by topography, histology (morphology), and behavior. It also provides a<br />

separate grading and differentiation code. The ICD-O, Second Edition<br />

(1990), went into general use in the United States in 1992 (publication).<br />

MEDLINE<br />

An on-line version of Index Medicus published by the <strong>National</strong> Library of<br />

Medicine (NLM). It contains in<strong>for</strong>mation (abstracts) about the documents,<br />

but not the documents themselves (on-line data base).<br />

MEDLARS The MEDLARS system (NLM) is a basic guide to searching the various<br />

biomedical data bases. It contains more than 20 separate data bases, such<br />

as, MEDLINE to search <strong>for</strong> articles in recent journals, CANCERLIT to<br />

search <strong>for</strong> cancer literature, and CHEMLINE to search <strong>for</strong> chemical<br />

compounds (on-line data base).<br />

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