Online Program

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SEER*Stat: A software tool for studying the impact of cancer on a population-Day 2 Advanced-SEER*Stat survival analyses


Sunday, November 1, 2015 : 9:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Donald Green, BS, Information Management Services, Inc., Calverton, MD
David Annett, BS, Information Management Services, Inc., Calverton, MD

The purpose of this presentation is to provide an overview of a survival analysis.  Several hands on exercises will be conducted to produce relative, period, conditional, and cause-specific survival rates.

Learning Areas:

Assessment of individual and community needs for health education
Basic medical science applied in public health
Biostatistics, economics
Epidemiology
Public health or related nursing
Public health or related research

Learning Objectives:
Identify the different types of survival statistics produced by the SEER*Stat software. Describe how the SEER*Stat software can be used to calculate relative, cause-specific, period, and conditional survival rates.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Mr. Annett has provided SEER*Stat training courses at each of the previous fourteen annual conferences for the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries. Mr. Annett is a senior systems analyst and was involved in the original design and development of the SEER*Stat software.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.