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cancerradarr (version 1.3.1)

globocan.2022.eu: European countries age-specific cancer burden from GLOBOCAN 2022

Description

A multi-columns dataset containing for all the European countries (UN definition) (as ISO3 code), sex and cancer type combinations the number of cases and population at risk estimated in GLOBOCAN 2022. This data are used in cancerradarr to compute the relative index on a standard reference population that could be more easily compared between registries. In addition to individual European countries, aggregated areas such as E27 (European Union 27 countries) and EUN (all the UN European countries) are stred in the dataset

Usage

globocan.2022.eu

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 6,384 rows and 6 columns:

cob_iso3

Country ISO3 code

sex

targeted sex

ageg

targeted age group

can

the caqncer type

ncanref

number of cancer cases estimated in GLOBOCAN 2022

pyref

population at risk estimated in GLOBOCAN 2022

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References

Bray F, Laversanne M, Sung H, Ferlay J, Siegel RL, Soerjomataram I, Jemal A. Global cancer statistics 2022: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries. CA Cancer J Clin. 2024 May-Jun;74(3):229-263. doi: 10.3322/caac.21834. Epub 2024 Apr 4. PMID: 38572751.