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During the last decades, autopsy rates have dramatically decreased in many countries. The autopsy rate declined from 60 % in 1980 to 7 % in 2010. Furthermore, there was also a decline in the rate of newly detected tumours based on autopsy information.
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Why is it important?
A consequence of the reduced autopsy rate is the reduction of incidental findings at autopsy in cancer registration
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This page is a summary of: Changes in autopsy rates among cancer patients and their impact on cancer statistics from a public health point of view: a longitudinal study from 1980 to 2010 with data from Cancer Registry Zurich, Virchows Archiv, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-015-1734-7.
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