ManuelaQuaresma/CSI

The index of cancer survival is a single number indicator that summarises the overall patterns of cancer survival for all cancer types combined. The index does not reflect the prospects of survival for any individual cancer patient (or group of patients). It was developed to act as a strategic tool for national surveillance and local monitoring of the effectiveness of cancer services in a given population. his repository contains the materials (synthetic data and R code) used in the illustration of the above mentioned tutorial, to enable the user to replicate the construction of the index, and to apply it to their own data.

Keywords

Cancer index, Cancer policy, Monitoring, Net survival