Representativeness of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program Data: Recent Trends in Cancer Mortality Rates

Abstract

This issue is of particular relevance to the interpretation of incidence measures, computed from the SEER data, for which there is no national database. Future efforts should be directed at a better understanding of how the SEER population differs from the U.S. population so that SEER rates can be adjusted to be more nationally representative.