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Hannah K. Weir

Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Publications -  96
Citations -  13970

Hannah K. Weir is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 91 publications receiving 10946 citations. Previous affiliations of Hannah K. Weir include University of Toronto.

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The impact of patient follow-up on population-based survival rates.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided to support the importance of complete death ascertainment for producing accurate cancer survival statistics, and that ascertainment of deaths only should generally be sufficient for survival analysis.
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Population-Based Cancer Survival (2001 to 2009) in the United States: Findings From the CONCORD-2 Study

TL;DR: This supplement to Cancer provides survival estimates by race (black vs white), state of residence at the time of diagnosis, and stage of disease at thetime of diagnosis for 9 solid tumors in men and women 1–9 and for acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children.
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Economic assessment of central cancer registry operations. Part II: developing and testing a cost assessment tool.

TL;DR: The development of a new cost data collection instrument, the National Program of Cancer Registries' Cost Assessment Tool (NPCR-CAT), which was pilot tested with a representative group of seven registries, and the lessons learned will help tailor future data collection efforts to ensure high quality data are obtained from all registries.