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USCancerStats

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Change in Cancer Incidence, Mortality and Survival Statistics.

Description

US Incidence, mortality, and survival statistics for 20 solid tumor types.

Usage

USCancerStats

Format

A data frame with 20 observations on the following 4 variables.

site: The site (or organ) of the cancer.
survival: Absolute change in site-specific five-year survival.
mortality: Percentage change in site-specific mortality.
incidence: Percentage change in sit-specific incidence.

Details

Incidence, mortality, and survival statistics for 20 solid tumor types reported by the SEER pro- gram. For each tumor, the absolute difference in 5-year survival between 1989-1995 and 1950-1954 is reported, along with the percentage change in mortality and incidence for 1950 - 1996.

References

Welch, H.G., Schwartz, L.M. and Woloshin, S., 2000. Are increasing 5-year survival rates evidence of success against cancer?. JAMA, 283(22), pp.2975-2978.

Examples

data(USCancerStats, package = "R4HCR")

cor.test( ~ survival + mortality,
          data = USCancerStats,
          exact = FALSE,
          method = "sp")

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