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 2025-07-15 00:00:00
- Apply before 2025-06-17 00:00:00

Language

English

Credits

32 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Disciplines

Health Administration View 59 other Short Courses in Health Administration in United Kingdom

Academic 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/full

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 1550 GBP for the full programme during 5 days.
National

1550 GBP/full

Tuition Fee

Based 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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