Statistical Resources

Interactive Internet Tools

• Fast Stats
  Quick access to key SEER and US cancer statistics for major cancer sites by age, sex, and race.
• Cancer Query Systems
  Data retrieval applications that provide access to cancer statistics stored in online databases.
• State Cancer Profiles
  System of interactive maps and graphs enabling the investigation of cancer trends at the national, state, and county level.
• Search the SEER Cancer Statistics Review
  Retrieve pages from the annual report that meet search criteria, then merge pages into one custom-built PDF.

Statistical Software

• SEER*Stat
  For the analysis of SEER and other cancer-related databases.
• SEER*Prep
  Software to convert ASCII text data files to the SEER*Stat database format.
• Probability of Developing or Dying of Cancer (DevCan)
• Joinpoint Trend Analysis Software
• Cancer Survival Analysis Software (CanSurv)
• ComPrev
  Calculates complete prevalence based on limited-duration prevalence.
• ProjPrev
  Projects SEER prevalence onto different populations.
• Methods & Software for Population-based
  Cancer Statistics

SEER Data and Other Databases

• SEER Data, 1973-2005
  SEER incidence and population data.
• US Mortality Data
  Collected and maintained by the National Center for Health Statistics.
• US Population Data
  County population estimates currently used in the SEER*Stat software.
• Standard Population Data
  Age distributions used as weights to create age-adjusted statistics.
• County Attributes
  Variables inked to SEER Incidence, US Mortality, and US Population data
• SEER-Medicare Linked Database
  Linkage of these two large population-based sources of data.

Data Reporting Tools

• SEER Incidence Site Recode
  Variables added to the SEER databases to define the major cancer sites.
• SEER Cause of Death Recode
  SEER-defined major site groups based on the International Classification of Diseases.
• SEER Behavior Recode for Analysis
• International Classification of Childhood Cancer (ICCC)
  Definitions from IARC and SEER's modification.
• Policy for Calculating Hispanic Mortality
• Documentation for the SEER Data

Biostatistical Research Funding

• Statfund.cancer.gov
  Information on statistical grants, funding opportunities, and application procedures.