NAACCR is pleased to announce an important educational opportunity. Please contact Michel Coleman, whose contact information is below, for more information.
One-week intensive course on the principles, methods and applications of cancer survival with population-based data, 11-15 July 2022
The Cancer Survival Group's 15th annual short course will be held face to face at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 2022, after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic. Faculty members will include internationally renowned experts in the methods of cancer survival analysis, with 10 researchers in the Cancer Survival Group. The main topics include the fundamentals of population-based cancer survival, data quality, creation and use of life tables, and the main analytic methods. The methodological concepts of cancer survival will also be illustrated with public health and policy applications. This course has attracted cancer registry staff, epidemiologists and clinicians from more than 60 countries all over the world, and it is relevant for anyone working with or interested in the estimation and deployment of cancer survival for cancer control. For more information and how to apply, please click here.
Dr Michel P Coleman BA BM BCh MSc FFPH
Professor of Epidemiology and Vital Statistics
Head of the Cancer Survival Group, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Honorary Consultant in Oncology, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Visiting Professor in Public Health, Newcastle University
+44 20 7927 2203 https://csg.lshtm.ac.uk/
Cancer survival short course 11-15 July 2022: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/cpd/scspma.html
Global Surveillance of Cancer Survival (CONCORD): https://csg.lshtm.ac.uk/concord/
Cancer survival research at LSHTM: 2019 blog
Publications: https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/view/research_centre/XCSG