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## Introduction: Cancer prevalence (people alive on a certain date in a population who previously had a cancer diagnosis) is expected to increase in the United States and Europe due to improvements in survival and population aging. Examination of prevalence by phase of care allows us to identify subgroups of patients according to their care trajectories, thus allowing us to improve health care planning, resource allocation, and calculation of costs. ## Methods: A new method to estimate prevalence by phase of care using grouped data is illustrated. Prevalence is divided into 3 mutually exclusive phases: initial, continuing, and end-of-life. An application to US and Italian data is applied to prevalent cases diagnosed with colon–rectum, stomach, lung, or breast cancer. ## Results: The distribution of phase of care prevalence estimated by cancer type and sex and results from the two datasets are very similar. Most survivors are in the continuing phase; the end-of-life phase is larger for cancers with worse prognosis. All phases prevalence is generally higher in the Italian than in the US dataset, except for lung cancer in women, where prevalence proportion in the Italian dataset is 30

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Author

Gigli, Anna; Francisci, Silvia; Guzzinati, Stefano; Hall, Aaron; Hachey, Mark; Scoppa, Steve; Mariotto, Angela

Publisher

SAGE Publications; II Pensiero Scientifico Editore srl (ISSN 0300-8916)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)