Life tables for global surveillance of cancer survival (the CONCORD programme): data sources and methods

Spika, D, Bannon, F, Bonaventure, A, Woods, LM, Harewood, R, Carreira, H, Coleman, MP and Allemani, C. 2017. Life tables for global surveillance of cancer survival (the CONCORD programme): data sources and methods. [Online]. Figshare. Available from: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3704431.

Spika, D, Bannon, F, Bonaventure, A, Woods, LM, Harewood, R, Carreira, H, Coleman, MP and Allemani, C. Life tables for global surveillance of cancer survival (the CONCORD programme): data sources and methods [Internet]. Figshare; 2017. Available from: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3704431.

Spika, D, Bannon, F, Bonaventure, A, Woods, LM, Harewood, R, Carreira, H, Coleman, MP and Allemani, C (2017). Life tables for global surveillance of cancer survival (the CONCORD programme): data sources and methods. [Data Collection]. Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3704431.

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We set out to estimate net survival trends for 10 common cancers in 279 cancer registry populations in 67 countries around the world, as part of the CONCORD-2 study. Net survival can be interpreted as the proportion of cancer patients who survive up to a given time, after eliminating the impact of mortality from other causes (background mortality). Background mortality varies widely between populations and over time. It was therefore necessary to construct robust life tables that accurately reflected the background mortality in each of the registry populations. Life tables of all-cause mortality rates by single year of age and sex were constructed by calendar year for each population and, when possible, by racial or ethnic sub-groups. We used three different approaches, based on the type of mortality data available from each registry. With death and population counts, we adopted a flexible multivariable modelling approach. With unsmoothed mortality rates, we used the Ewbank relational method. Where no data were available from the registry or a national statistical office, we used the abridged UN Population Division life tables and interpolated these using the Elandt-Johnson method. We also investigated the impact of using state- and race-specific life tables versus national race-specific life tables on estimates of net survival from four adult cancers in the United States (US).

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Data capture method	Aggregation
Date (Date published in a 3rd party system)	27 February 2017
Language(s) of written materials	English

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Data Creators	Spika, D, Bannon, F, Bonaventure, A, Woods, LM, Harewood, R, Carreira, H, Coleman, MP and Allemani, C
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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Project	Funder	Grant Number	Funder URI
UNSPECIFIED	Canadian Partnership Against Cancer	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
UNSPECIFIED	Cancer Focus Northern Ireland	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
UNSPECIFIED	Cancer Institute New South Wales	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
UNSPECIFIED	Cancer Research UK	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
UNSPECIFIED	US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
UNSPECIFIED	Swiss Re	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
UNSPECIFIED	Swiss Cancer Research foundation	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
UNSPECIFIED	Swiss Cancer League	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
UNSPECIFIED	University of Kentucky	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED

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Date Deposited	06 Mar 2017 12:38
Last Modified	09 Jul 2021 11:22
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