Solutions for Quantitative Problems in Cancer Surveillance and Control

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In Press

Das B, Clegg L, Feuer EJ, Pickle LW. A New Method to Evaluate the Completeness of Case Ascertainment by a Cancer Registry. [Cancer Causes and Control] In Press.

Kim H, Yu B, Feuer EJ. Infernence in segmented line regression: A simulation study. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation In Press.

Huang L, Cronin KA, Mariotto A, Johnson K, Feuer EJ. Improved survival time: What can survival cure models tell us about population-based survival improvement in late stage colorectal, ovarian, and testicular cancer? Cancer In Press.

Li Y, Tiwari RC. Comparing trends in cancer rates across overlapping regions. Biometrics 2008. In Press.

2008

Ghosh K, Tiwari RC, Feuer EJ, Cronin KA, Jemal A. Predicting US Cancer Mortality Counts Using State Space Models. In: Khattree R, Naik DN, eds. Computational Methods in Biomedical Researh. Boca Ratan, FL: Chaptman and Hall/CRC; 2008. p. 131-151.

2007

Li Y, Tiwari RC, Guha S. Mixture Cure Survival Models with Dependent Censoring. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology) Jun 2007;69(3):285-306.

Ravdin PM, Cronin KA, Howlader N, Berg CD, Chlebowski RT, Feuer EJ, Edwards BK, Berry DA. The decrease in breast-cancer incidence in 2003 in the United States. N Engl J Med 19 Apr 2007;356(16):1670-4.

Tiwari RC, Ghosh K. Prediction of US Cancer Mortality Counts Using Semiparametric Bayesian Techniques. J Am Stat Assoc Mar 2007;102:7-15.

Yu B, Barrett MJ, Kim H, Feuer EJ. Estimating joinpoints in continuous time scale for multiple change-point models. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 1 Feb 2007;51(5):2420-7.

Yu B, Tiwari RC. Application of EM algorithm to mixture cure model for grouped relative survival data. Journal of Data Science Jan 2007;5(1):41-51.

2006

Clarke LD, Plevritis SK, Boer R, Cronin KA, Feuer EJ. A comparative review of CISNET breast models used to analyze U.S. breast cancer incidence and mortality trends. J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr 2006;(36):96-105.

Cronin KA, Feuer EJ, Clarke LD, Plevritis SK. Impact of adjuvant therapy and mammography on U.S. mortality from 1975 to 2000: comparison of mortality results from the cisnet breast cancer base case analysis. J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr 2006;(36):112-21.

Cronin KA, Mariotto AB, Clarke LD, Feuer EJ. Additional common inputs for analyzing impact of adjuvant therapy and mammography on U.S. mortality. J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr 2006;(36):26-9.

Fay MP, Lee J. Measuring agreement between two statistics with applications to age-standardization. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 2006;169 part 1:81-96.

Fay MP, Tiwari RC, Feuer EJ, Zou Z. Estimating average annual percent change for disease rates without assuming constant change. Biometrics Sep 2006;62(3):847-54.

Feuer EJ. Modeling the impact of adjuvant therapy and screening mammography on U.S. breast cancer mortality between 1975 and 2000: introduction to the problem. J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr 2006;(36):2-6.

Habbema JD, Schechter CB, Cronin KA, Clarke LD, Feuer EJ. Modeling cancer natural history, epidemiology, and control: reflections on the CISNET breast group experience. J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr 2006;(36):122-6.

Habbema JD, Tan SY, Cronin KA. Impact of mammography on U.S. breast cancer mortality, 1975-2000: are intermediate outcome measures informative? J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr 2006;(36):105-11.

Holford TR, Cronin KA, Mariotto AB, Feuer EJ. Changing patterns in breast cancer incidence trends. J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr 2006;(36):19-25.

Pickle LW. Improving the Communication of the Geographic Patterns of Disease Through Computer-based Tools. Proceedings of American Statistical Association Statistical Graphics Section; 10 Aug 2005; Minneapolis, MN. 2006.

Tiwari RC, Clegg LX, Zou Z. Efficient interval estimation for age-adjusted cancer rates. Stat Methods Med Res Dec 2006;15(6):547-69.

Yu B, Tiwari RC. Multiple imputation methods for modelling relative survival data. Stat Med 15 Sep 2006;25(17):2946-55.

2005

Berry DA, Cronin KA, Plevritis SK, Fryback DG, Clarke L, Zelen M, Mandelblatt JS, Yakovlev AY, Habbema JD, Feuer EJ, Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET) Collaborators. Effect of screening and adjuvant therapy on mortality from breast cancer. N Engl J Med 27 Oct 2005;353(17):1784-92.

Das B, Feuer EJ, Mariotto A. Geographic association between mammography use and mortality reduction in the US. Cancer Causes Control Aug 2005;16(6):691-9.

Edwards BK, Brown ML, Wingo PA, Howe HL, Ward E, Ries LA, Schrag D, Jamison PM, Jemal A, Wu XC, Friedman C, Harlan L, Warren J, Anderson RN, Pickle LW. Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1975-2002, featuring population-based trends in cancer treatment. J Natl Cancer Inst 5 Oct 2005;97(19):1407-27.

Jemal A, Murray T, Ward E, Samuels A, Tiwari RC, Ghafoor A, Feuer EJ, Thun MJ. Cancer statistics, 2005. CA Cancer J Clin 2005;55(1):10-30.

Midthune DN, Fay MP, Clegg L, Feuer EJ. Modeling reporting delay and reporting corrections in cancer registry data. J Am Stat Assoc Mar 2005;100(469):61-70.

Tiwari RC, Cronin KA, Davis WW, Feuer EJ, Yu B, Chib S. Bayesian model selection for join point regression with application to age-adjusted cancer rates. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, Applied Statistics Nov 2005;54 (5):919-939.

Yu B, Tiwari RC, Cronin KA, McDonald C, Feuer EJ. CANSURV: A Windows program for population-based cancer survival analysis. Comput Methods Programs Biomed Dec 2005;80(3):195-203.

2004

Jemal A, Tiwari RC, Murray T, Ghafoor A, Samuels A, Ward E, Feuer EJ, Thun MJ, American Cancer Society. Cancer statistics, 2004. CA Cancer J Clin Jan 2004;54(1):8-29.

Kim HJ, Fay MP, Yu B, Barrett MJ, Feuer EJ. Comparability of segmented line regression models. Biometrics Dec 2004;60(4):1005-14.

Tiwari RC, Ghosh K, Jemal A, Hachey M, Ward E, Thun MJ, Feuer EJ. A new method of predicting US and state-level cancer mortality counts for the current calendar year. CA Cancer J Clin 2004;54(1):30-40.

Yu B, Tiwari RC, Cronin KA, Feuer EJ. Cure fraction estimation from the mixture cure models for grouped survival data. Stat Med 15 Jun 2004;23(11):1733-47.

2003

Boer R, Ries LA, van Ballegooijen M, Feuer EJ, Legler JM, Habbema JD. Ambiguities In Calculating Cancer Patient Survival: The SEER Experience for Colorectal and Prostate Cancer. Statistical Research and Applications Branch, National Cancer Institute: 2003. Technical Report # 2003-05. Available at http://srab.cancer.gov/reports/.

MacEachren AM, Hardisty F, Dai X, Pickle LW. Supporting visual analysis of federal geospatial statistics. Commun ACM Jan 2003;46(1):63-64.

2002

Clegg LX, Feuer EJ, Midthune DN, Fay MP, Hankey BF. Impact of reporting delay and reporting error on cancer incidence rates and trends. J Natl Cancer Inst 16 Oct 2002;94(20):1537-45.

Fay MP, Follmann DS. Designing Monte Carlo implementations of permutation or bootstrap hypothesis tests. American Statistician 1 Feb 2002;56:63-70.

Wang X, Chen JX, Carr DB, Bell BS, Pickle LW. Geographic statistics visualization: Web-based linked micromap plots. Computing in Science & Engineering Jun 2002;4(3):90-94.

Warren JL, Brown ML, Fay MP, Schussler N, Potosky AL, Riley GF. Costs of treatment for elderly women with early-stage breast cancer in fee-for-service settings. J Clin Oncol 1 Jan 2002;20(1):307-16.

2000

Gamel JW, Weller EA, Wesley MN, Feuer EJ. Parametric cure models of relative and cause-specific survival for grouped survival times. Comput Methods Programs Biomed Feb 2000;61(2):99-110.

Kim HJ, Fay MP, Feuer EJ, Midthune DN. Permutation tests for joinpoint regression with applications to cancer rates. Stat Med 15 Feb 2000;19(3):335-51.

Klabunde CN, Potosky AL, Legler JM, Warren JL. Development of a comorbidity index using physician claims data. J Clin Epidemiol Dec 2000;53(12):1258-67.

1999

Etzioni RD, Feuer EJ, Sullivan SD, Lin D, Hu C, Ramsey SD. On the use of survival analysis techniques to estimate medical care costs. J Health Econ Jun 1999;18(3):365-80.

Fay MP. Approximate confidence intervals for rate ratios from directly standardized rates with sparse data. Communications in Statistics:Theory and Methods 1999;28:2141-60.

Weller EA, Feuer EJ, Frey CM, Wesley MN. Parametric relative survival modelling using generalized linear models with application to Hodgkin Lymphoma. Applied Statistics: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society -Series C 1999;48(1):79-89.

1998

Cronin KA, Legler JM, Etzioni RD. Assessing uncertainty in microsimulation modelling with application to cancer screening interventions. Stat Med 15 Nov 1998;17(21):2509-23.

Edwards MJ, Gamel JW, Feuer EJ. Improvement in the prognosis of breast cancer from 1965 to 1984. J Clin Oncol Mar 1998;16(3):1030-5.

1997

Fay MP, Feuer EJ. A semi-parametric estimate of extra-Poisson variation for vital rates. Stat Med 15 Nov 1997;16(21):2389-401.

Fay MP, Feuer EJ. Confidence intervals for directly standardized rates: a method based on the gamma distribution. Stat Med 15 Apr 1997;16(7):791-801.

Lin DY, Feuer EJ, Etzioni R, Wax Y. Estimating medical costs from incomplete follow-up data. Biometrics Jun 1997;53(2):419-34.

1996

Black MM, Zachrau RE, Hankey BF, Feuer EJ. Prognostic significance of in situ carcinoma associated with invasive breast carcinoma. A natural experiment in cancer immunology? Cancer 15 Aug 1996;78(4):778-88.

Gamel JW, Meyer JS, Feuer E, Miller BA. The impact of stage and histology on the long-term clinical course of 163,808 patients with breast carcinoma. Cancer 15 Apr 1996;77(8):1459-64.

Riley GF, Feuer EJ, Lubitz JD. Disenrollment of Medicare cancer patients from health maintenance organizations. Med Care Aug 1996;34(8):826-36.

1994

Frey CM, Feuer EJ, Timmel MJ. Projection of incidence rates to a larger population using ecologic variables. Stat Med 15 Sep 1994;13(17):1755-70.

1993

Gaynor JJ, Feuer EJ, Tan CC, Wu DH, Little CR, Straus DJ, Clarkson BD, Brennan MF. On the use of Cause-Specific Failure and Conditional Failure Probabilities: Examples from Clinical Oncology . J Am Stat Assoc Jun 1993;88:400-409.

Johnson KA, Pickle LW. Risk of breast cancer in the Nurses' Health Study: applying the Gail model. JAMA 1993;270(24):2925-6.

Wun L, Brown CC. An alternative decision rule for quality control in sequential sampling plans. Communications in Statistics:Theory and Methods 1993;22(7):2033-42.

1992

Feuer EJ, Hankey BF, Gaynor JJ, Wesley MN, Baker SG, Meyer JS. Graphical representation of survival curves associated with a binary non-reversible time dependent covariate. Stat Med 28 Feb 1992;11(4):455-74.

Frey CM, McMillen MM, Cowan CD, Horm JW, Kessler LG. Representativeness of the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results program data: recent trends in cancer mortality rates. J Natl Cancer Inst 3 Jun 1992;84(11):872-7.

1991

Coughlin SS, Nass CC, Pickle LW, Trock B, Bunin G. Regression methods for estimating attributable risk in population-based case-control studies: a comparison of additive and multiplicative models. Am J Epidemiol 1 Feb 1991;133(3):305-13.

Feuer EJ, Kessler LG, Baker SG, Triolo HE, Green DT. The impact of breakthrough clinical trials on survival in population based tumor registries. J Clin Epidemiol 1991;44(2):141-53.

Wun L. Regression analysis of autocorrelated poisson-distributed data. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods 1991;20(10):3083-3091.

Wun L, Pearl WL. Accessing the statistical characteristics of the mean absolute error of forecasting. Intl J Forecasting Nov 1991;7(3):335-337.

1989

Feuer EJ, Kessler LG. Test statistic and sample size for a two-sample McNemar test. Biometrics Jun 1989;45(2):629-36.

Pickle LW, Johnson KA. Estimating the long-term probability of developing breast cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst 20 Dec 1989;81(24):1854-5.

1980

Decouflé P, Thomas TL, Pickle LW. Comparison of the proportionate mortality ratio and standardized mortality ratio risk measures. Am J Epidemiol Mar 1980;111(3):263-9.