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Prevalence Statistics:
Complete Prevalence (ComPrev) Software
Version 2.0 released April 2011
The ComPrev software calculates complete prevalence based on limited-duration prevalence statistics. Complete prevalence represents the proportion of people alive on a certain day who previously had a diagnosis of the disease, regardless of how long ago the cancer was diagnosed. The software contains incidence and survival models estimated using SEER cancer data for a combination of cancer sites, sex and races. These models are used to calculate the completeness index (Capocaccia & De Angelis, 1997; Merrill et al., 2000). The completeness index represents the percent of "completeness" of limited duration prevalence. For example, 90% indicates that limited duration prevalence represents 90% of complete prevalence. Complete prevalence is calculated by dividing limited duration prevalence by the completeness index as a proportion. Limited-duration prevalence statistics can be extracted from SEER*Stat
software and imported into ComPrev.
Tutorials
Two tutorials are provided below. You will need to download ComPrev to complete these tutorials.
Download ComPrev Version 2.0
Download the installation program for ComPrev Version 1.0: [Comprev_2_0_Setup.exe].
If you have problems downloading ComPrev or questions about the application, please email ComPrev Technical Support.