Estimating age conditional probability of developing disease from surveillance data

Michael P Fay¹^,2

¹National Cancer Institute 6116 Executive Blvd., Suite 504 Bethesda, MD 20892-8317, USA

²(Current Address) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 6700 B Rockledge Drive MSC 7609, Bethesda, MD 20892-7609, USA

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Population Health Metrics 2004, 2:6doi:10.1186/1478-7954-2-6


Published:	27 July 2004

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Comparing the method of Wun, Merrill, and Feuer (1998) to the PMAJ method. We calculate lifetime risks of developing certain cancers for different race and sex combinations. For each lifetime risk we give the old method of Wun, Merrill, and Feuer [4], the PMAJ method, and the percent difference. In general, the two methods agree to within about 2 percent.

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