Using Standardized "cancer Clocks"
Journal
JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal Volume
320
Journal Issue
24
Pages
2535-2536
Date Issued
2018
Author(s)
Abstract
This Viewpoint discusses the practice of using a clock timer analogy to describe population risks of cancer and suggests standardizing the measures of incidence rates used in the clocks to population size to facilitate more accurate comparisons between populations.
SDGs
Other Subjects
cancer diagnosis; cancer epidemiology; cancer incidence; cancer risk; geographic distribution; health hazard; human; prevalence; priority journal; Short Survey; standardization; incidence; neoplasm; probability; risk; statistical model; Humans; Incidence; Models, Statistical; Neoplasms; Probability; Risk
Publisher
American Medical Association
Type
short survey