Predicting county-level cancer incidence rates and counts in the USA.

ABSTRACT: Many countries, including the USA, publish predicted numbers of cancer incidence and death in current and future years for the whole country. These predictions provide important information on the cancer burden for cancer control planners, policymakers and the general public. Based on evidence from several empirical studies, the joinpoint (segmented-line linear regression) model (JPM) has been adopted by the American Cancer Society to estimate the number of new cancer cases in the USA and in individual states since 2007. Recently, cancer incidence in smaller geographic regions such as counties, and local policy makers are increasingly interested with Federal Information Processing Standard code regions. The natural extension is to directly apply the JPM to county-level cancer incidence dat

SUBMITTER: Yu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5933533 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature