ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/> <title>About</title> <link href="../Templates/CDEu3.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> </head> <body> <div class="DescrOutput"> <img alt="" src="../Image/Back.gif" width="23" height="25" title="back" onclick="document.location='../Index.htm'"/>back </div> <table width="600" border="0"> <tr> <td colspan="3" class="Tit">About</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:3px">&nbsp;</td> <td style="width:596px" class="TabAbout"> The EUROCARE-3 results data base is aimed to present survival rates and other statistics estimated at the aggregated level. The included files do not contain micro-data at the individual level of any kind. To access the database Microsoft"! Access 2000 is required.<br /> The data base is organised in six sections, differing by type of presented data and logic of access:<br/><br/> <strong>Section 1</strong> contains <strong>survival data</strong> of adult patients for the incidence period <strong>1990-1994</strong>, cross- classified according to cancer site, population, sex, age, and period of follow-up, observed and relative survival rates, age-standardized relative survival rates.<br /><br /> <strong>Section 2</strong> regards <strong>time trends</strong> of survival, that are presented in the four incidence periods 1983-1985, 1986-1988, 1989-1991, 1992-1994, and consider only cancer registry populations, whose data cover the four periods. This part presents the same data structure as described above, further stratified by period of diagnosis. <br/><br/> <strong>Section 3</strong> contains page views of the <strong>European tables</strong> presented in the monograph [1]. Country-specific tables by cancer site, similar to those appearing in previous monographs [2,3], may also be displayed.<br/><br/> <strong>Section 4</strong> presents the cancer registry population specific <strong>life tables</strong> that were collected in the framework of the EUROCARE project and used for the calculation of relative survival ratios [4].<br/><br/> <strong>Section 5</strong> contains survival data for <strong>childhood cancers</strong> diagnosed in the incidence period <strong>1990-1994</strong> [5], cross-classified according to cancer type, population, sex, age, and of follow-up interval.<br/><br/> <strong>Section 6</strong> allows the user to access three <strong>accessory tables</strong>: <ol><li><strong>Country-specific weights</strong> for the calculation of European survival figures.</li> <li><strong>Standard age distributions</strong>, both EUROCARE-3 and ICSS, for the calculation of age-standardised rates.</li> <li>Age-Standardised (5-year) Relative Survival ratios by cancer site, sex and registry [6]. The file provides a complete set of age-adjusted relative survival ratios estimated by using <strong>model-based imputation</strong> to replace missing age-specific relative survival ratios.</li></ol><br/> <span style="text-decoration: underline">Notes</span><br /> A specific analysis of the EUROCARE data base was carried out to provide the information included in this data base. The analysis for adult patients has been performed by using 1-year follow-up intervals. This causes some minor differences with the data published in the EUROCARE 3 monograph, as those data refer to six months follow-up intervals. Cumulative survival estimates are expected indeed to slightly differ when calculated by differing follow-up intervals, as some cases could be censored alive. In practice, these differences usually range between 0.1 and 0.3 percent units, and do not exceed a 1.0 percent unit. Other small differences with published data are due to roundings of country-specific weights for the calculations of European survival figures.<br /><br /> </td> <td style="width:3px">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center" colspan="3" class="TabAbout">REFERENCES</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:3px">&nbsp;</td> <td style="width:596px" class="TabAbout"> <ol start="1"> <li> EUROCARE Working Group. EUROCARE-3: Survival of cancer patients cases diagnosed in 1990-94. Ann. Oncol. 14 (Suppl 5), 2003. </li> </ol> <ol start="2"> <li> Berrino F, Sant M, Verdecchia A, et al. (eds). Survival of Cancer Patients in Europe: the EUROCARE Study. IARC Scientific Publications No. 132. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1995. </li> </ol> <ol start="3"> <li> Berrino F, Capocaccia R, Estève J, et al. (eds). Survival of Cancer Patients in Europe: the EUROCARE-2 Study. IARC Scientific Publications No. 151. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1999. </li> </ol> <ol start="4"> <li> Micheli A, Baili P, Quinn M, et al. Life expectancy and cancer survival in the EUROCARE-3 cancer registry areas. Ann. Oncol. 14 (Suppl 5), 2003. </li> </ol> <ol start="5"> <li> Gatta et al and the EUROCARE Working Group. Childhood cancer survival in Europe. Ann. Oncol. 14 (Suppl 5), 2003. </li> </ol> <ol start="6"> <li> Roazzi, et al and the EUROCARE Working Group. Electronic availability of EUROCARE-3 data: a tool for further analysis Ann. Oncol. 14 (Suppl 5), 2003. </li> </ol> <ol start="7"> <li> Capocaccia R, Gatta G, Roazzi P et al. Cancer survival in Europe: the EUROCARE data base and methods. Ann. 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