Cancer incidence estimation from mortality data: a validation study within a population-based cancer registry

Cancer incidence estimation from mortality data: a validation study within a population-based cancer registry

Abstract Background Population-based cancer registries are required to calculate cancer incidence in a geographical area, and several methods have been developed to obtain estimations of cancer incidence in areas not covered by a cancer registry. However, an extended analysis of those methods in ord...

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Main Authors: Daniel Redondo-Sánchez, Miguel Rodríguez-Barranco, Alberto Ameijide, Francisco Javier Alonso, Pablo Fernández-Navarro, Jose Juan Jiménez-Moleón, María-José Sánchez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-03-01
Series:Population Health Metrics
Subjects:
Cancer incidence
Estimation
Goodness-of-fit
Mortality-to-incidence ratio
Validation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-021-00248-1

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