The old implementation of the model assumes calendar period- and cohort-specific incidences for the United Kingdom that span the period 1960 1997, taken from the Cancer Incidence in Five Continents (CI5) publications (Ferlay et al, 2010).
Individuals are assumed to follow calendar period and cohort specific incidence rates for breast and ovarian cancer.
As in Antoniou et al (2008a), the cancer incidences were assumed to be calendar period and cohort specific.
So far, statistical methods for this type of doubly truncated data have not (to the extent of the authors' knowledge) been extensively studied, when the rate of initiating events is not assumed constant over calendar time.
The breast and ovarian cancer incidences were assumed to be calendar period and cohort specific, based on the incidences for England and Wales Cancerr in five continents volumes I VIII, Doll et al, 1966, 1970; Waterhouse et al, 1976, 1982; Muir et al, 1987; Parkin et al, 1992, 2002).
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This was also assumed to be the calendar time at maximum follow up.
Health state prevalences from the WHO Multi-country Household Survey Study were assumed to relate to calendar year 2000.
If the patient did not use any healthcare resources during the covered data collection period, the follow-up time was assumed to be the calendar year 2011.
