PC-NORDCAN version 2.4 A PC based program for presentation of regional and national cancer incidence and mortality in the Nordic countries. Present facilities Sponsored by Powered by ANCR 1
Reference Gerda Engholm, Jacques Ferlay, Niels Christensen, Freddie Bray, Marianne L. Gjerstorff, Åsa Klint, Elínborg Ólafsdóttir, Eero Pukkala and Hans H. Storm (2009). NORDCAN: Cancer Incidence and Mortality in the Nordic Countries, Version 2.4. Danish Cancer Society. 2
Authors/contact persons Database and help file: Jacques Ferlay, IARC Secretariat: Gerda Engholm, Hans Storm, Niels Christensen Denmark: Marianne L. Gjerstorff Finland: Eero Pukkala Iceland: Elínborg Ólafsdóttir Norway: Freddie Bray Sweden: Åsa Klint 3
Variables 41 groups of diagnoses coded according to common international rules Gender The 5 countries can be divided into counties (amt,fylke, län), total 81 regions New geographical regions combining counties can be formed 5 year age groups 0-4,,85+ Single years from 1972 to 2006 4
Graphs Bar charts Maps all Nordic countries or one country Line-charts of age-specific curves, trends in summary measures and trends by age or by birth cohorts Pie charts for the 5-10 most common diagnoses Population pyramids 5
Tables Summary by sex, age, and period Age specific by sex and period User defined reports Summary tables, all regions for one cancer or all cancers for one region Age specific tables, all regions for one cancer or all cancers for one region 6
Export facilities Graphs can be edited font size, colour, age interval, log-scale Graphs can be printed or copied to e.g. PowerPoint, Word, or saved in graphic files Tables can be printed or saved for later use in e.g. Excel Datasets containing numbers and risk time can be saved for statistical analysis in other programs (file -> export) 7
Graphs 8
Graphs example 1 9
Graphs example 2 Preselect: Standard/numbers Age interval Sex Incidence/mortality 10
Graphs example 3 Select: Cancer Region 11
Graphs example 4 Select: Title Line thickness Line symbol Colours 12
Graphs example result Grid lines Log scale Age interval (some graphs) Text colour Background colour Font size Copy to clipboard Change line colour (left click) 13
Graphs line chart 14
Graphs bar chart 15
Graphs - maps 16
Graphs trends in summary measure 17
Graphs trends by birth cohort 18
Graphs age specific curves 19
Graphs pie charts 20
Graphs population pyramid - Sweden 21
Graphs population pyramid - Iceland 22
Table example 1 23
Table example 2 Select: Period Sex Data type 24
Table example 3 Select: Cancer or population 25
Table example 4 26
Table example 5 The 4 tables arranged Tiles Horizontally ( click Window ) 27
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Help function 29
Help function, registration+homepages hyperlinks 30
Comparable cancer data in the Nordic countries? Sources of registration differ Different classification systems between countries and over time Even ICD7 codes vary between countries Variation in included tumours Non-melanoma skin cancer registration differ between countries and basal cell carcinoma is included in Denmark before 1978 31
NORDCAN entities 41 groups of diagnoses - international dataset The incidence data were first recoded to ICD-O-3 and ICD-10 and then converted into the NORDCAN entities The mortality data were converted from various ICD systems (ICD-7, 8, 9 or 10) Data are thus comparable between countries and periods, but might deviate a little from officially published data New groups can be formed by combinations 32
Help function entity description 1 33
Help function entity description 2 34
Help function entity description 3 35
User defined population group 1 36
User defined population group 2 37
User defined cancer group 1 38
User defined cancer group 2 39
User defined cancer group 3 40
IARC-products Some of the facilities in NORDCAN can also be found in products from IARC www-dep.iarc.fr Cancer Incidence in Five Continents GLOBOCAN Cancer mortality database (WHO) 41
Price and size NORDCAN can be downloaded free of charge from http://www.ancr.nu/nordcan.asp System requirements: A 32-bit Pentium based PC running Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista (NT, 2000, XP, Vista recommended). 64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended). 50 MB hard-disc space required. Screen resolution set by 800x600 pixels or higher Please register for notification on updates and for documentation of the use of the product 42
Web-version 3.4 on www.ancr.nu More facilities than PC-version English and the five Nordic languages Data from start of the registries to the latest published data for each country Prevalence number of cancer patients alive Cancer stat fact sheets for each diagnosis Only countries no division into counties Less flexible tables and figures 43