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International Cancer Surveillance Activities:
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Collaborations on Models of Cancer Prevalence and Incidence
The Division of Cancer
Control and Population Sciences has been collaborating with the
Instituo Superiore Sanita (Rome, Italy) and Istituto Nazionale
Tumori (Milan, Italy) to:
- apply demographic back-calculation
models developed by these groups to estimate US incidence and
prevalence from mortality and survival,
- reach European/US
consensus on methods to estimate cancer prevalence based on tumor
registry data, and
- apply models developed by these groups
to estimate complete prevalence from cancer registries which have
limited duration of follow-back.
Software under development
will be widely released to facilitate computation of these methods.
The work has been funded by a series of small contracts.
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