Life tables for global surveillance of cancer survival (the CONCORD programme): Data sources and methods

BMC Cancer

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Spika, Devon ^a   Bannon, Finian ^b   Bonaventure, Audrey ^a   Woods, Laura M ^a   Harewood, Rhea ^a   Carreira, Helena ^a   Coleman, Michel P ^a   Allemani, Claudia ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cubic splines; Generalised linear model; Global health; Life expectancy; Life tables; Mortality; Net survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; JAPAN; LESOTHO; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; NIGERIA; POPULATION MODEL; RACE; REGISTER; UNITED STATES; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; JAPAN; LESOTHO; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; NIGERIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES;

EID: 85015161957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-017-3117-8     Document Type: Article

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