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  1. Case mix does not fully explain variation in rates of non-surgical treatment of older women with operable breast cancer

    Morgan J, Richards P, Ward S, Francis M, Lawrence G, Collins K, Reed M, Wyld L
    European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 2015. 41(6): S18-S19 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0748798315001122

  2. Incidence and Survival of Gynecologic Sarcomas in England

    Francis M, Dennis NL, Hirschowitz L, Grimer R, Poole J, Lawrence G, Nordin A
    International Journal of Gynecological Cancer. 2015. 25(5): 850-857. PMID: 25853381

  3. Trends in operative caseload and mortality rates after radical cystectomy for bladder cancer in England for 1998-2010

    Hounsome LS, Verne J, McGrath JS, Gillatt DA
    European Urology. 2015. 67(6):1056-62 PMID: 25530608

  4. Comparison of melanoma incidence and trends among youth under 25 years in Australia and England, 1990-2010

    Wallingford SC, Iannacone MR, Youlden DR, Baade PD, Ives A, Verne J, Aitken JF, Green AC
    International Journal of Cancer. 2015. DOI: 10.1002/ijc.29598. [ePub ahead of print] PMID: 25960371

  5. Identifying Prognostic Indicators in Staging Metastatic Sarcomas Using Hospital Episode Statistics.

    Francis M, Dennis N, Charman J, Lawrence G.
    Cancer Investigation. 2015. doi:10.3109/07357907.2015.1019675. [ePub online ahead of print] PMID: 25919082

  6. Assessing the impact of an English national initiative for early cancer diagnosis in primary care

    Rubin G, Gildea C, Wild S, Shelton J, Ablett-Spence I
    British Journal of Cancer. 2015. 112:S57–S64 PMID: 25734381

  7. Gleason drift in the NIHR ProtecT study

    Oxley J, Simpkin A, Goepel J, Varma M, Griffiths D, Grigor K, Mayer N, Warren A, Deshmukh N, Bhattarai S, Dormer J, Hounsome L, Adamczyk LA, Metcalfe C, Lane JA, Davis M, Donovan JL, Neal DE, Hamdy FC, Robinson MC; ProtecT Study Group.
    Histopathology. 2015. 66(3):438-46 PMID: 25231130

  8. An evaluation of the impact of large-scale interventions to raise public awareness of a lung cancer symptom

    Ironmonger L, Ohuma E, Ormiston-Smith N , Gildea C, Thomson CS, Peake MD
    British Journal of Cancer. 2015. 112: 207-216 PMID: 25461805

  9. Vulval cancer incidence, mortality and survival in England: age-related trends

    Lai J, Elleray R, Nordin A, Hirschowitz L, Rous B, Gildea C, Poole J
    BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 2014. 121(6): 728-738 PMID: 24148762

  10. Recent trends in the incidence, geographical distribution, and survival from thyroid cancer in Wales, 1985-2010

    Amphlett B, Lawson Z, Abdulrahman GO Jr, White C, Bailey R, Premawardhana LD, Okosieme OE
    Thyroid. 2013. 23(11):1470-1478 PMID: 23488941

  11. Statistical Methods in Cancer Research

    IARC Publication
    4 Volumes on statistical methods used in cancer research (1980, 1987, 1986, 1994)
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Survival

  1. Overall survival of black and white men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC): a 20-year retrospective analysis in the largest healthcare trust in England

    Kenrick Ng, Peter Wilson, Katherine Mutsvangwa, Luke Hounsome , Jonathan Shamash
    Prostate Cancer and Prostatic diseases https://doi.org/10.1038/s41391-020-00316-x

  2. Guidelines on Population Based Cancer Survival Analysis

    Jason Poole (co-lead), Finian Bannon (co-lead), Sean McPhail (co-lead), Matthew Barclay, Michel Coleman, Marta Emmett, Tim Evans, David Greenberg, Ula Nur, Nick Ormiston-Smith, Andy Pring, Bernard Rachet, Rebecca Thomas, Sarah Whitehead
    File Cancer Survival SOP v11.docx

  3. Global surveillance of cancer survival 1995–2009: analysis of individual data for 25 676 887 patients from 279 population-based registries in 67 countries (CONCORD-2).

    4. Allemani C, Weir HK, Carreira H, Harewood R, Spika D, Wang X, Bannon F, Ahn JV, Johnson CJ, Bonaventure A, Marcos-Gragera R, Stiller C, Silva GAE, Chen W, Ogunbiyi OJ, Rachet B, Soeberg MJ, You H, Matsuda T, Bielska-Lasota M, Storm H, Tucker TC, Coleman MP, the CONCORD Working Group.
    The Lancet. 2015. 385(9972):977-1010. PMID: 25467588

  4. Standard cancer patient population for age standardising survival ratios

    Corazziari I, Quinn M, Capocaccia R. (2004)
    European Journal of Cancer, 40(15): 2307–16 PMID: 15454257

  5. The Relative Survival Rate: A Statistical Methodology

    Ederer F, Axtell LM and Cutler SJ (1961)
    National Cancer Institute Monograph, 6: 101-121. PMID: 13889176

General

  1. Guidelines for calculation of cancer prevalence

    PDF icon 2 UK Cancer Prevalence SOP FINAL.pdf

  2. United Kingdom and Ireland Charging Policies for Data Requests

    PDF icon 3 Charging Policies V2 FINAL.pdf

  3. APHO Technical Briefing 8 about modelling prevalence

    http://www.apho.org.uk/resource/item.aspx?RID=100181

  4. National Deprivation Scores

    Discussed paper
    Microsoft Office document icon National Deprivation Scores Teleconference Write-up

  5. Technical Briefing 3: Commonly Used Public Health Statistics and their Confidence Intervals

    http://www.apho.org.uk/resource/item.aspx?RID=48457

Clusters

  1. UKIACR Cancer Cluster Factsheet

    Ceri White, Luke Hounsome, Anna Gavin, Hannah McConnell, Jana Witt
    PDF icon UKIACR Cancer Cluster Factsheet.pdf

  2. Investigating and Analysing Small-Area Cancer Clusters

    UKIACR analysis subgroup
    PDF icon Cancer Cluster SOP.pdf

Funnel plots

  1. Funnel plots for population-based cancer survival: principles, methods and applications

    Quaresma M, Coleman MR, Rache B (2014)
    Statistics in Medicine, 33: 1070–1080. PMID: 24038332

  2. Relative Survival Funnel Plot calculations - with explanations

    Calculations to be used when only the survival rate and confidence intervals are available
    Office spreadsheet icon Relative Survival Funnel Plot Calculations - with explanation.xls

  3. Technical Briefing 2: Statistical process control methods in public health intelligence

    http://www.apho.org.uk/resource/item.aspx?RID=39445

  4. Funnel plots for comparing institutional performance

    Spiegelhalter DJ (2005)
    Statistics in Medicine, 24: 1185-1202. PMID: 15568194

Standardisation

  1. Confidence Intervals for Directly Age-Standardised Rates: Modified Gamma Methodology

    File Analysis Grp Gamma CI Recommendation (v2)

Flow method

  1. Simulation modelling to validate the flow method for estimating completeness of case ascertainment by cancer registries

    Paul B S Silcocks and David Robinson (2007)
    Journal of Public Health, 29(4): 455-462. PMID: 17827194