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Estimating Country-Specific Incidence Rates of Rare Cancers: Comparative Performance Analysis of Modeling Approaches Using European Cancer Registry Data

dc.contributor.authorBotta, L
dc.contributor.authorMartínez, JM
dc.contributor.authorTrama, A
dc.contributor.authorGatta, G
dc.contributor.authorBorràs, J
dc.contributor.authorCapocaccia, R
dc.contributor.authorClèries, R
dc.contributor.authorSalmerón Martínez, Diego
dc.contributor.departmentCiencias Sociosanitarias
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-12T11:37:28Z
dc.date.available2024-01-12T11:37:28Z
dc.date.issued2022-10-29
dc.description© 2021. The authors. This document is made available under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc /4.0/ This document is the submitted version of a published work that appeared in final form in American Journal of Epidemiology.es
dc.description.abstractEstimating incidence of rare cancers is challenging for exceptionally rare entities and in small populations. In a previous study, investigators in the Information Network on Rare Cancers (RARECARENet) provided Bayesian estimates of expected numbers of rare cancers and 95% credible intervals for 27 European countries, using data collected by population-based cancer registries. In that study, slightly different results were found by implementing a Poisson model in integrated nested Laplace approximation/WinBUGS platforms. In this study, we assessed the performance of a Poisson modeling approach for estimating rare cancer incidence rates, oscillating around an overall European average and using small-count data in different scenarios/computational platforms. First, we compared the performance of frequentist, empirical Bayes, and Bayesian approaches for providing 95% confidence/credible intervals for the expected rates in each country. Second, we carried out an empirical study using 190 rare cancers to assess different lower/upper bounds of a uniform prior distribution for the standard deviation of the random effects. For obtaining a reliable measure of variability for country-specific incidence rates, our results suggest the suitability of using 1 as the lower bound for that prior distribution and selecting the random-effects model through an averaged indicator derived from 2 Bayesian model selection criteria: the deviance information criterion and the Watanabe-Akaike information criterion.es
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dc.identifier.citationAmerican Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 191, Issue 3, March 2022, Pages 487–498
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwab262
dc.identifier.issnElectronic: 1476-6256
dc.identifier.issnPrint: 0002-9262
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/137234
dc.languageenges
dc.publisherOxford University Press Inces
dc.relationEuropean Commission through the Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (grant 2000111201). We acknowledge the support of the Agència d’Avaluació d’Universitats i Recerca (grant 2017SGR00735) and the Centres de Recerca de Catalunya (CERCA) Program of the Generalitat de Catalunya. We also acknowledge support from the Fundación SéNeCa—Agencia de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Región de Murcia Program for Excellence in Scientific Research (project 20862/PI/18). The data underlying this article were provided by RARECARENet by permission. Data will be shared upon request to the corresponding author with the permission of RARECARENet (http://rarecarenet.istitutotumori.mi.it/ rarecarenet/).es
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://academic.oup.com/aje/article/191/3/487/6413874es
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional*
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dc.titleEstimating Country-Specific Incidence Rates of Rare Cancers: Comparative Performance Analysis of Modeling Approaches Using European Cancer Registry Dataes
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