This workshop described a range of options for presenting survival-based metrics from population-based data. It included metrics that are useful for reporting the impact of cancer on patient survival and approaches for making fair comparison across population groups (including international comparisons). The aim was to give an overview of the methods that are available and their relative merits, rather than the technical details of their calculation (although relevant related references and links to software implementations were given).
Presentations & Detailed programme
Population-based cancer survival metricsMark Rutherford |
| Welcome |
| Crude and net survival metrics |
| Choice of framework: relative survival or cause-specific |
| Age-standardisation |
| Survival metrics for different audiences/purposes |
| Gains in life expectancy and avoidable deaths |
| Discuss estimation approaches available in both a model-based and non-parametric setting |