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Table 2 Identification of TACT-reported disease-free survival events in NCDR

From: Can routine data be used to support cancer clinical trials? A historical baseline on which to build: retrospective linkage of data from the TACT (CRUK 01/001) breast cancer trial and the National Cancer Data Repository

 

Local recurrence

Distant recurrence

New breast disease

(N = 140)

(N = 691)

(N = 67)

Agreementa

98 (71.0%)

425 (63.5%)

54 (81.8%)

Event reported in TACT but not in NCDR

17

76

2

Disagreement in number of sites and/or diagnosis time

23

168

10

Event occurred after 31 March 2010 (HES extract date)

2

22

1

  1. aDenominator excludes events occurring after 31 March 2010 (HES extract date). TACT Taxotere and Adjuvant ChemoTherapy, NCDR National Cancer Data Repository, HES Hospital Episode Statistics