The need for a rapid and comprehensive adoption of the revised European standard population in cancer incidence comparisons
As cancer incidence varies according to age, it is important to rule out differences in age structures in any comparison. A common way of adjusting for these differences is using direct age standardization, which applies age-specific weights from a standard population. Eurostat has recently introduc...
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ftjrc:oai:publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu:JRC97210 2023-05-15T16:51:39+02:00 The need for a rapid and comprehensive adoption of the revised European standard population in cancer incidence comparisons CROCETTI Emanuele DYBA Tadeusz Artur MARTOS JIMENEZ Maria Del Carmen RANDI Giorgia ROONEY Roisin BETTIO Manola 2017 Printed https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC97210 https://insights.ovid.com/crossref?an=00008469-201709000-00012 https://doi.org/10.1097/CEJ.0000000000000250 ENG eng LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS JRC97210 2017 ftjrc https://doi.org/10.1097/CEJ.0000000000000250 2022-05-01T08:19:18Z As cancer incidence varies according to age, it is important to rule out differences in age structures in any comparison. A common way of adjusting for these differences is using direct age standardization, which applies age-specific weights from a standard population. Eurostat has recently introduced a revised European standard population (RESP). The effect of using the new standard, in comparison with that introduced in 1976 [European standard population (ESP)], is evaluated. Cancer incidence data for prostate and testis cancer for Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland from the NORDCAN web site, and for Ireland and Italy-Genoa from Cancer Incidence in five Continents-X, were analyzed. Incidence rates were directly age standardized using ESP and RESP. The RESP conferred greater weight to adults and the elderly than the ESP. For prostate cancer, age-standardized rates computed with RESP are consistently higher by between 50 and 60% than those computed with ESP. However, the use of RESP, instead of ESP, has little impact on the pattern of time trends, the relative ranking of countries, the values of relative risks, or the percentage differences between age-standardized rates. For testis cancer, RESP and ESP provide very similar results because this cancer is more common in young men. Both ESP and RESP are in circulation. It is, therefore, important that European cancer registries reach consensus on a single standard to use to avoid erroneous comparisons of data computed with different standards. Given that Eurostat recently introduced RESP and is using this standard for data collected from the European Union Member States, it would make sense to rally behind RESP. JRC.I.2 - Public Health Policy Support Other/Unknown Material Iceland Joint Research Centre, European Commission: JRC Publications Repository Norway European Journal of Cancer Prevention 26 5 447 452 |
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As cancer incidence varies according to age, it is important to rule out differences in age structures in any comparison. A common way of adjusting for these differences is using direct age standardization, which applies age-specific weights from a standard population. Eurostat has recently introduced a revised European standard population (RESP). The effect of using the new standard, in comparison with that introduced in 1976 [European standard population (ESP)], is evaluated. Cancer incidence data for prostate and testis cancer for Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland from the NORDCAN web site, and for Ireland and Italy-Genoa from Cancer Incidence in five Continents-X, were analyzed. Incidence rates were directly age standardized using ESP and RESP. The RESP conferred greater weight to adults and the elderly than the ESP. For prostate cancer, age-standardized rates computed with RESP are consistently higher by between 50 and 60% than those computed with ESP. However, the use of RESP, instead of ESP, has little impact on the pattern of time trends, the relative ranking of countries, the values of relative risks, or the percentage differences between age-standardized rates. For testis cancer, RESP and ESP provide very similar results because this cancer is more common in young men. Both ESP and RESP are in circulation. It is, therefore, important that European cancer registries reach consensus on a single standard to use to avoid erroneous comparisons of data computed with different standards. Given that Eurostat recently introduced RESP and is using this standard for data collected from the European Union Member States, it would make sense to rally behind RESP. JRC.I.2 - Public Health Policy Support |
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CROCETTI Emanuele DYBA Tadeusz Artur MARTOS JIMENEZ Maria Del Carmen RANDI Giorgia ROONEY Roisin BETTIO Manola The need for a rapid and comprehensive adoption of the revised European standard population in cancer incidence comparisons |
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The need for a rapid and comprehensive adoption of the revised European standard population in cancer incidence comparisons |
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The need for a rapid and comprehensive adoption of the revised European standard population in cancer incidence comparisons |
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The need for a rapid and comprehensive adoption of the revised European standard population in cancer incidence comparisons |
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The need for a rapid and comprehensive adoption of the revised European standard population in cancer incidence comparisons |
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The need for a rapid and comprehensive adoption of the revised European standard population in cancer incidence comparisons |
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need for a rapid and comprehensive adoption of the revised european standard population in cancer incidence comparisons |
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