Fast Stats is designed to allow quick and easy access to key statistics for all major cancer sites by age, sex, race, and geographic area. The statistics … [Read more...]
Glossary of Statistical Terms
five-year survival rate
The percentage of people in a study or treatment group who are alive five years after they were diagnosed with or treated for a disease, such as cancer. The … [Read more...]
georeferenced statistics
Statistics reported by geographic location of the events (e.g., residence of the cancer case) … [Read more...]
ICCC classification
At the time the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) published their first monograph on Childhood Cancer in … [Read more...]
incidence
The number of newly diagnosed cases during a specific time period.A cancer incidence rate is the number of new cancers of a specific site/type occurring in … [Read more...]
Joinpoint software
Statistical software for the analysis of trends using a regression model that describes trends by a sequence of straight line segments, connected at … [Read more...]
life tables
A table for a given population listing, for each sex and each age from 0 to 120, how many members die at that age and how many survive one more year. … [Read more...]
lifetime risk
The probability of developing or dying from cancer in the course of one's lifespan.Lifetime risk is the probability of developing or dying from cancer in … [Read more...]
limited-duration prevalence
Represents the proportion of people alive on a certain day who had a diagnosis of the disease within the past x years. … [Read more...]
mortality
The number of deaths during a specific time period.A cancer mortality rate is the number of deaths, with cancer as the underlying cause of death, occurring … [Read more...]