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Overview
What you will study
In the Cancer Survival - Principles, Methods and Applications course offered by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , you will enjoy lectures and discussions, computer-based exercises with real data, daily review sessions and a session for participants to present their own work or ideas for debate. You will be provided with digital or printed copies of all lectures, practical exercises and solutions.
The aims of the course are:
- to teach the main statistical methods for estimating population-based cancer survival
- to discuss the main controversies in estimation and interpretation of cancer survival
- to provide students with an intensive learning environment in which faculty members will attend all sessions of the course, not just their own
- to provide opportunities for computer-based practical analysis of real cancer data
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- measures of the cancer burden (incidence, prevalence, mortality, survival, cure)
- all-cause (crude), net and relative survival and excess mortality hazard
- construction of abridged and complete life tables
- net survival estimation, including cohort, complete, period and hybrid approaches
- adjustment of cancer survival estimates for age and other factors
- impact of data quality, completeness, stage migration, screening and lead-time bias
- methods for handling missing data in cancer survival analysis
- avoidable premature deaths and population "cure"
- multi-variable modelling of relative survival, and comparison with Cox and Poisson approaches
- the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030
- public health interpretation of cancer survival trends and inequalities
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 5 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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Language
English
Credits
32 alternative credits
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Health Administration View 67 other Short Courses in Health Administration in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Epidemiologists, statisticians, physicians and oncologists, public health specialists and others with a direct interest in applied cancer survival analysis, and particularly those working in a cancer registry.
- You should have a basic understanding of cancer survival.
- We do not insist that you have a qualification in statistics, but some experience is essential for you to take full advantage of the statistical components of the course.
- All practical sessions will use Stata, so some experience of Stata should be considered essential.
Tuition Fee
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International
1550 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1550 GBP for the full programme during 5 days. -
National
1550 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1550 GBP for the full programme during 5 days.
- Current MSc and Research Degree students: £775
- Participants based in LMICs: £527
Living costs for London
1137 - 2157 GBP /month
Living costs
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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