Publication details
A new concept for modelling the number of cancer patients potentially treated in the Czech Republic
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The approach combines epidemiological trends in incidence and prevalence with demographic databases (used for estimates of relative X-yrs survival) and with cancer-specific mortality data that were applied to estimate the rate of dissemination relapses of the disease. The functionality and power of the model is well documented on Czech National Cancer Registry with more than 1,4 million of cases reported since 1977. Long-term history of the registry allows even 30-yrs relative survival estimates with mortality data separating death events due to cancer from the other reasons. Finally, summed numbers of patents that are probable to be treated in a given year are supported with reasonable confidence limits. All estimates are performed in age-specific format with respect to the clinical stage of the patients. |