kankergeval

Kankergeval is a Dutch term meaning a single case of cancer. It is used in clinical and academic contexts to refer to an individual patient diagnosed with cancer. The phrase is not a formal diagnosis but a descriptive label pointing to a specific patient scenario used in teaching, case reports, or discussions about diagnostic challenges, treatments, or outcomes.

In medical literature, kankergeval descriptions can include information such as cancer type, stage, histology, treatment interventions, and response. However, when used for publication or presentation, personal identifiers are removed and information is limited to what is necessary for educational or scientific purposes.

Ethical and legal considerations: authors typically obtain patient consent for publishing case details and ensure data protection. In the European Union, processing personal health data is subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and national implementations.

Relationship to statistics: while a kankergeval refers to one patient, researchers study cancer at the population level through incidence, prevalence, survival rates, and tumor registries; a single case is a unit of descriptive narrative rather than a statistical metric.

See also: cancer, oncology, case report, medical ethics, data privacy.