Creator:

Statistics Canada

Geography:

North America > Canada

Categories:

• Cancer

Tags:

• cancer
• epidemiological methods
• neoplasms
• prognosis
• registries
• survival

Date:

2006

URL:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/studies-etudes/82-003/archive/2006/9193-eng.pdf

Annotation:

This period analysis provides Canadian predictions of the short- and long-term relative survival of people recently diagnosed with cancer. Long-term period and cohort-based estimates are also compared.  Data are from the Canadian Cancer Registry, the Canadian Mortality Data Base, and Statistics Canada life tables.