Hopkins Summer Institute Course: Quantitative Methods in Cancer Surveillance

The Statistical Research & Applications Branch is coordinating a course entitled "Quantitative Methods in Cancer Surveillance" at the Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics offered by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This is a 5-day course that will be held June 26-30, 2006 in Baltimore, Maryland. This course is intended to provide students with skills for understanding and implementing statistical methods used in cancer surveillance. It includes hands-on experience with publicly available data from the US National Cancer Institute's Surveillance Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) population-based cancer registry program and software applications developed specifically for these data.

Course topics include:

• Incidence, Mortality and Associated Measures,
• Population-Based Cancer Survival,
• Prevalence,
• Mapping and Spatial Methods.

Prerequisites for the course include basic and intermediate epidemiology courses, and statistical course work including regression analyses. A level of comfort with statistical notation (e.g. subscripts, summations, products) is necessary. While occasionally calculus will be used, an understanding of most concepts will not require knowledge of calculus.

For more information and to register, please visit the Graduate Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

This course is similar in purpose and materials to the "Cancer Surveillance Institute II: Methods and Statistics" offered in March 2004 by North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR)