cancer: Cancer indidence data.

cancerR Documentation

Cancer indidence data.

Description

Dataset of cancer incidence by year, sex and age group, United States 1999-2015

Usage

data(cancer)

Format

A data table with 646 rows and 5 variables.

Year

Calendar year

agegroup

SEER age group 0, 1-4, 5-9, 10-14, ... 75-84, 85+

Sex

Male or Female

n

Number of newly diagnosed cases

pop

Census estimated population

Source

CDC WONDER online database https://wonder.cdc.gov/

References

United States Cancer Statistics (1999-2015) Incidence, WONDER Online Database. United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Cancer Institute. http://wonder.cdc.gov/cancer-v2015.html


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