Cancer Statistics terms starting with C

6 terms

1. Cancer Burden An estimate of the financial, emotional, or social impact that cancer creates within the population.
2. Cancer Statistics Review (CSR) An annual report containing the most recent incidence, mortality, and survival statistics, published by the Cancer Statistics Branch of the NCI.
3. Collaborative Staging Algorithm A joint effort by several organizations to develop standard computerized methods for determining the stage of cancer based on tumor size, extension of the…
4. Confidence Interval An estimated range of values which is likely to include an unknown population parameter. The 95% (p-value = .05) and 99% (p-value = .
5. Crude Probability of Death The crude probability of death measures the mortality patterns actually experienced in a cohort of cancer patients on which many possible causes of death…
6. Crude Rate A crude rate is the ratio of the number of people in which the event of interest happens in a specified time period to the size of the population who may…