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 order to confirm their validity is still needed.

Methods

We assessed the validity of one of the most frequently used methods to estimate cancer incidence, on the basis of cancer mortality data and the incidence-to-mortality ratio (IMR), the IMR method. Using the previous 15-year cancer mortality time series, we derived the expected yearly number of cancer cases in the period 2004-2013 for six cancer sites for each sex. Generalized linear mixed models, including a polynomial function for the y

SUBMITTER: Redondo-Sanchez D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7988947 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature