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UScancer (version 0.1-2)

Create US cancer datasets from SEER, IARC, and US Census data

Description

This package contains functions to read cancer data from SEER (http://seer.cancer.gov/) and IARC (http://www.iarc.fr) to create datasets at the county level based on US census information.

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install.packages('UScancer')

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Version

0.1-2

License

GPL-2

Maintainer

Jonathan Lee

Last Published

August 9th, 2014

Functions in UScancer (0.1-2)

UScancer-package

Create US cancer datasets from SEER, IARC, and US Census data
fipslookup

FIPS lookup table
dplookup

Census demographics profile lookup table
siteLookup

Converts a name description to ICD matching pattern
readSEER

Read SEER cancer data (ASCII)
readCensus

Read US census