Cancer survival indicators for the National Centre for Health Outcomes Development
Professor Michel P Coleman, Dr Bernard Rachet, Libby Ellis and Dr Delia Alexe
Collaboration with the National Centre for Health Outcomes Development
The Cancer Survival Group collaborates with the National Centre for Health Outcomes Development (NCHOD) to provide cancer survival indicators for the resident populations of various health and administrative geographies in England. We have carried out the following analyses:
Cancer survival in patients diagnosed 1992-1994 followed-up to 1999, England, NHS Region and Health Authority. January 2002
Cancer survival in patients diagnosed 1993-1995 followed-up to 2000, England, NHS Region and Health Authority. January 2002
Cancer survival in patients diagnosed 1994-1996 followed-up to 2001, England, Government Office Region (GOR) and Strategic Health Authority (SHA). April 2004
Cancer survival in patients diagnosed 1995-1997 followed-up to 2002, England, GOR and SHA. April 2005
Cancer survival in patients diagnosed 1996-1998 followed-up to 2003, England, GOR and SHA. June 2006
Cancer survival in patients diagnosed 1997-1999 followed-up to 2004, England, GOR and SHA. June 2006
and generated the following reports:
Cancer Survival in the Health Authorities of England. May 2002
Improvements in methodology for NHS cancer survival indicators. December 2002
Cancer survival indicators for the National Health Service in England: exploration of alternative geographic units of analysis – Primary Care Organisations and Strategic Health Authorities. June 2004
Cancer survival indicators for the National Health Service in England : implications of using Cancer Networks as alternative geographic units of analysis. December 2006 [in press]
Implication of using cohort and period approached to estimate relative survival for cancer patients at national and regional level. February 2007 [in press]