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Resource Details

Resource Name/Title

DevCan Software Program

Description

Statistical models are used to compute the probability of being diagnosed or dying of cancer from birth or conditional on a certain age. DevCan takes cross-sectional counts of incident cases from the standard areas of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) ProgramExternal Web Site Policy conducted by the National Cancer Institute, and mortality counts for the same areas from data collected by the National Center for Health StatisticsExternal Web Site Policy, and uses them to calculate incidence and mortality rates using population estimates from census data for these areas. These rates are converted to the probabilities of developing or dying from cancer for a hypothetical population. Please note that when the program refers to cancer or incidence, it is referring only to the cancer site that you requested.

 

DevCan 6.6.0 is the current version of the software (released November 2011). It supports rate editing, sensitivity analysis, user-defined databases, confidence intervals, and the ability to get risk estimates from any age to any age. All revisions made for the current release of the software are listed in readme.txt. The methods section provides information about the methods used in DevCan including a comparison to methods used in previous versions.

 

NCI Division, Office, Center (DOC)

Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS)

Category(s)

Epidemiological Resources and Statistics
Surveillance

Contact(s)

Swan, Judith 
+1 301 496 8506 

Web Sites

Statistical Research and Applications

Availability

Searchable Web site

National Cancer Institute U.S. Department of Health & Human Services National Institutes of Health USA.gov