Age-standardized expected years of life lost: quantification of cancer severity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The critical implications of the expected years of life lost (EYLL) index of cancer for health policy assessments have been largely overlooked. We advocate to standardize life lost indices.

Methods

Using the Taiwan Cancer Registry database as an example, we calculated the EYLL and the age-standardized EYLL to facilitate comparisons among cancer types (a total of 903,935 patients from the database). The International Cancer Survival Standard was used for calculating age-standardized EYLL.

Results

Pancreatic cancer is the most severe cancer in Taiwan, with the greatest age-standardized EYLL for the men (15.6 years) and women (18.0 years) as well as for the men and women combined (16.6 years). Negative correlations were observed between unstandardized EYLL of

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6498471 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature