Short Courses

BERNARD RACHET, MD PhD London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine  Objectives: • Define the concept of net survival and briefly review the current approaches to estimate population-based cancer survival • Review the multivariable excess hazard models, then focus on the flexible cumulative excess hazard model (extension of the Royston-Parmar model) • Define the concept of population ‘cure’, review the estimation of ‘cure’ fraction and the ‘cure’ models  • Describe the missing data issues for population-based cancer survival analysis and introduce approaches for handling missing data (multiple imputation, inverse probability weighting, sensitivity)