Details

Subject(s)

• Cancer—United States—Statistics [Browse]
• Cancer—United States—Mortality [Browse]
• United States—Statistics, Medical [Browse]

Related name

• National Cancer Institute (U.S.) [Browse]
• National Cancer Institute (U.S.). Demographic Analysis Section [Browse]
• SEER Program (National Cancer Institute (U.S.)) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Statistics [Browse]

Restrictions note

Use of these data is restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

Summary note

This dataset has two parts: 1) the SEER special public use data, on magnetic tape, which contains the incidence cases of patients diagnoses with cancer in 1973-1991 and 2) the population file which contains population estimates for each SEER registry and the total U.S. The data on magnetic tape includes county of residence at time of diagnosis, place of birth, year of bith, age when diagnosed, race, whether Spanish origin, sex, marital status, date of diagnosis, laterality, morphology, diagnostic confirmation, site-specific surgery, the reason there was no cancer-directed surgery, vital status, ICD Code used for cause of death, survival time, ICD-9 diagnosis, radiation, radiation to brain/CNS, radiation sequence with surgery, extent of disease (10 digit), SEER modified AJCC stage, and Census Tract.

Other title(s)

• Recoded SEER public access record description cases diagnoses in 1973-91 user file
• SEER 1973-1991 population file
• Populations 1973-1991 U.S. and total for each SEER area
• SEER population file
• SEER user file

OCLC

1340473625

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