The short course Cancer Survival: Principles, Methods and Applications is focused on the estimation and real-world applications of cancer survival, including the theory, the formulae, and statistical modelling. It also covers cancer registration, data quality control, other metrics such as incidence, mortality, cure and prevalence, as well as international and world-wide comparisons of survival, and the public health and policy implications of trends and inequalities in cancer survival. Over the years, researchers from more than 60 countries. This year it will be the 18th edition of the annual course.
This short course is run by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's Cancer Survival Group.
A highly experienced international faculty will present a stimulating and intensive one-week course on the principles, methods and applications of cancer survival estimated with population-based cancer registry data. You will enjoy lectures and discussions, computer-based exercises with real data, daily review sessions and a session for participants to present their own work or ideas for debate. You will be provided with digital or printed copies of all lectures, practical exercises and solutions. For computer-based exercises, you will be expected to use your own laptop.
Net survival will be the main approach to analysis, with a discussion of recent methodological developments. The methodological concepts of cancer survival will be illustrated by public health and policy applications throughout the week. Results from recent survival studies will be presented and their interpretation discussed.