SEERaBomb-package {SEERaBomb}

SEER and A-Bomb Data Analysis Tools

Description

Creates SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results) and Japanese A-bomb survivor data binaries from ASCII sources and provides tools for estimating SEER second cancer risks. Depicted below, mkSEER merges cancers and populations of all three of the SEER databases into single cancer and population data frames.

SEER data field positions and names change over the years and the original purpose of SEERaBomb was to buffer/protect R scripts from such changes. A second purpose was to speed up SEER data computations by reducing the data [via pickFields()] to only fields of interest. SEERaBomb now has an additional purpose: estimating relative risks of SEER second cancers after diagnoses of first cancers, using all three SEER databases. Note: SEER no longer includes radiation therapy data by default. Users must thus obtain custom SEER treatment data https://seer.cancer.gov/data/treatment.html.

Details

Package:	SEERaBomb
Type:	Package
Depends:	dplyr, ggplot2, rgl, demography
Suggests:	bbmle
License:	GPL-2
LazyData:	yes
URL:	http://epbi-radivot.cwru.edu/SEERaBomb/SEERaBomb.html

Author(s)

Tom Radivoyevitch ([e-mail])

References

Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program (www.seer.cancer.gov) Research Data (1973-2015), National Cancer Institute, DCCPS, Surveillance Research Program, Surveillance Systems Branch, released April 2018, based on the November 2017 submission.

See Also

getFields,pickFields,mkSEER,mkSEERold,mkAbomb