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Cancer Prevalence References

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Capocaccia R, De Angelis R. Estimating the completeness of prevalence based on cancer registry data. Stat Med 1997;16:425-40. [View PDF]

Clegg L, Gail M, Feuer EJ. Estimating the variance of disease prevalence estimates from population-based registries. Biometrics 2002;58(3):684-8. [View PDF]

Coldman AJ, McBride ML, Braun T. Calculating the prevalence of cancer. Stat Med 1992;11:1579-89. [View PDF]

Connelly RR, Campbell PC, Eisenberg H. Central registry of cancer cases in Connecticut. Public Health Rep 1968;83:386-90.

De Angelis GD, De Angelis R, Frova L, Verdecchia A. MIAMOD: a computer program to estimate chronic disease morbidity using mortality and survival data. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 1994;44:99-107.

Feldman AR, Kessler L, Myers MH, Naughton MD. The prevalence of cancer. N Engl J Med 315;1986:1394-7. [View PDF]

Gail MH, Kessler L, Midthune D, Scoppa S. Two approaches for estimating disease prevalence from population-based registries of incidence and total mortality. Biometrics 1999;55:1137-44. [View PDF]

Gershman ST, Flannery JT, Barrett H, Nadel RK, Meigs JW. Development of the Connecticut Tumor Registry. Conn Med 1976;40:697-701.

Mariotto A, Warren JL, Knopf KB, Feuer EJ. The prevalence of colorectal cancer patients under care in the US. Cancer 2003;98:1253-61. [View PDF]

Merrill RM, Feuer EJ, Cappacaccia R, Mariotto A. Cancer prevalence estimates based on tumor registry data in the SEER Program. Int J Epidemiol 2000;29:197-207. [View PDF]

Verdecchia A, Capocaccia R, Egidi V, Golini A. A method for the estimation of chronic disease morbidity and trends from mortality data. Stat Med 1989;8:201-216. [View PDF]

Verdecchia A, De Angelis G, Capocaccia R. Estimation and projections of cancer prevalence from cancer registry data. Stat Med 2002 Nov 30;21(22):3511-26. [View PDF]

 

 


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