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Course organisers: Professor Michel P Coleman and
Dr Bernard Rachet
Course administrator: Miss
Kelly Lawless
Course aims and objectives
To teach the advanced principles and methodology of cancer survival
analysis.
- present and discuss the most advanced methods and applications of
modelling relative survival with co-variates
- teach methods for handling non-proportionality of the excess hazards;
- teach theory and methods for estimating "cure" of cancer
with population-based data;
- to discuss the main controversies in estimation and interpretation
of cancer survival statistics;
- to provide opportunities for computer-based practical analysis of
real cancer data.
Course overview
A highly experienced international faculty will present a stimulating
and intensive three days course on the advanced methodology and applications
of cancer survival, including discussion of the latest methodological
developments and results, in 6 lectures, 6 computer-based practicals.
Faculty members include Paul Dickman, Michel Coleman, Bernard Rachet,
Libby Ellis, Ula Nur, Manuela Quaresma and Anjali Shah. Most faculty
members will attend and participate in all sessions of the course, not
just their own lectures, making a particularly rich learning environment.
Various software packages and other tools for survival analysis will
be used on real data, and will be made available to participants
Course content:
The course covers:
- crude, net and relative survival and excess mortality rate;
- age standardization, and stage adjustment of relative survival;
- cohort, complete, period and hybrid approaches;
- modelling relative survival with individual data and co-variates;
- relative excess risk, interactions with co-variates and time since
diagnosis;
- full likelihood approach; the proportional vs non-proportional hazard
models;
- flexible models for examining time-dependent excess risk;
- fractional polynomials and B-splines to model the excess hazard
ratio as a flexible function of time;
- the impact of different methods of handling missing data on estimating
relative survival using population-based cancer data.
- models for estimating 'cure', time to 'cure' from cancer with applications.
Follow this link for a copy of the draft
programme in Word.
Who should apply?
Epidemiologists, statisticians, physicians and oncologists, public health
specialists and others with a direct interest in applied cancer survival
analysis. Follow this link for an
application form (PDF).
Entry criteria
Applicants must have a basic understanding of cancer survival analysis
as this course will include high-level discussion of statistical methodology
and practical computing in addition to discussion of the public health
applications of cancer survival data. Thus we do not insist that students
have qualifications in statistics, but some proven experience will be
beneficial for understanding the course content. We expect to make the
more theoretical components of the course sufficiently accessible to
be interesting to users of cancer statistics - just as we intend to
make the applied public health elements of the course accessible and
relevant for professional statisticians.
Dates and setting
The course will run from 18-20 April 2007 at the London School of Hygiene
& Tropical Medicine.
Course fees
The course fee is £495 for three days and covers course material
and lunch on the first day but excludes travel, accommodation and meals.
The deadline for payment of fees is 28 February 2007.
Sponsorship
Please do inform the course administrator and one of the course
organisers (the course administrator will not be in the office throughout
December 2006) of your plans to apply for funding as soon as possible
to ensure that you receive all the information and help you may need
particularly where joint applications will be submitted. Remember, you
will probably not be the only one that we are applying for money with.
If you are looking for sponsorship please look the following sites
- this will be added to as and when new funding opportunities are found:
Cancer
Research UK Workshop Bursaries
An ongoing application process which you need to apply for with support
from your employer.
MRC Health Services
Research Collaboration
Opportunities for a training bursary award. Fifteen are awarded each
year and applications must be submitted two months before the course
start date.
European
Association for Cancer Research
Funding to support travel to courses. Deadline 31 March 2007. However,
applicants who are not members of the EACR must be sponsored by two
members. A list of member is not available on the webpage but names
and addresses of the Council and Executive Committee can be found here
- you might be familiar with one of them. It costs EURO 30 to become
a member and you can do so by following this link http://www.eacr.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=38,
you never know, it might be worth it!
The Royal Society
Short Visit to the UK
Applications made to the Royal Society must come from the London School
of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in conjunction with you, the student
so please give us plenty of notice.
Accreditation
Continuing Professional Development accreditation with the Royal College
of Physicians is pending approval.
Course administrator
Miss Kelly Lawless, kelly.lawless@lshtm.ac.uk
or +44 (0)20 7612 7849.
Travel and accommodation
Unfortunately, we are not able to arrange travel and accommodation for
course participants. However, a list of local hotels and student accommodation
is available from the Registry (shortcourses@lshtm.ac.uk)
or you can contact Kelly Lawless (kelly.lawless@lshtm.ac.uk)
for advice if the following are not available:
International Students House, London- http://www.ish.org.uk/shortstay.html
St Giles' Hotel, London - http://www.stgiles.com/londonhotel/index.html
Langland Hotel, London - http://www.langlandhotel.com/index.php
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