Towards a more comprehensive understanding of cancer burden in North Carolina: priorities for intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To apply 4 measures of population burden in examining cancer burden in North Carolina and to identify priorities for intervention.

Methods

Four measures were used: incidence, mortality, prevalence, and years of potential life lost (YPLL). The North Carolina Central Cancer Registry provided summary data on incidence and mortality and record-level data that were examined using SEER*Stat software to calculate prevalence. North Carolina vital statistics (mortality) data and life expectancy estimates stratified by age, race, and sex were used to calculate YPLL. Each cancer site was ranked according to burden for each of the 4 individual burden measures and summarized into an overall rank. Burden was examined overall and by sex and race.

Principal findings

Four ca

SUBMITTER: Carpenter WR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2743945 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature