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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-1-21
pubmed:abstractText
A risk-adjusted method is proposed for estimating cancer incidence rates from data collected by the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program of the US National Cancer Institute. Unlike the conventional incidence-rate estimates reported by SEER, this method considers only the first primary cancer, and adjusts for population-based cancer prevalence, as well as for surgical procedures which remove an individual from risk of developing a given cancer. Thus, risk-adjusted incidence-rates more accurately reflect the average cancer risk for individuals in the cancer-free, at-risk population. The results of the analysis indicate that, in general, incidence-rate estimates are fairly similar between the conventional and risk-adjusted methods. However, this is not the case for certain cancer sites which may have: (i) a high number of subsequent primary cancers (e.g., melanomas-skin); (ii) a high cancer prevalence proportion (e.g., prostate cancer); (iii) a high number of subsequent primary cancers and prevalence proportion (e.g., female breast); or (iv) a high prevalence of removal of the organ in question (e.g., cervical and uterine cancers). For example, by applying the risk-adjusted incidence method for in situ and invasive cervical cancer, we found that in the period 1990-92 the age-adjusted incidence-rate estimate increased from 57.8 to 66.3 (15 percent) per 100,000 person-years; the greatest increase in the incidence-rate estimate occurred for women aged 65 to 69 years, from 40.1 to 63.2 (58 percent) per 100,000 person-years; and the lifetime risk of developing cervical cancer increased from 4.6 (1 in 22) to 5.5 (1 in 18) percent.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0957-5243
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
544-52
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Age Factors, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Breast Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Child, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Female, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Hysterectomy, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Incidence, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Male, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Melanoma, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-National Institutes of Health (U.S.), pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Neoplasm Invasiveness, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Population Surveillance, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Prevalence, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Prostatic Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Risk Factors, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-SEER Program, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Skin Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Surgical Procedures, Operative, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-United States, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Uterine Cervical Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:8877053-Uterine Neoplasms
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Risk-adjusted cancer-incidence rates (United States).
pubmed:affiliation
Cancer Control Research Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-7368, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article