BeBOD estimates of incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 57 cancer types, 2004-2021
Incidence: Data on new cancer cases in Belgium are collected by the Belgian Cancer Registry (BCR). For the current study, we selected 80 ICD-10 (C00.0-96.9 and chronic myeloid neoplasms) codes resulting in 57 cancer sites. Data were extracted by year (from 2004 to 2021), age group (5-years), sex and region (N=3). We excluded "Respiratory system and intrathoracic organs, NOS (not otherwise specified)" from further analyses because of too few cases.
Prevalence: Prevalence estimates were estimated using the above-described incidence estimates and the survival estimates also provided by BCR, derived from linkage with the Belgian Crossroads Bank for Social Security. We used a 10-year prevalence perspective meaning that from the year 2013 onwards, we were able to define the prevalence in a given year as the sum of person-months spent in the different health states. Specifically, we used a microsimulation approach to simulate future health states for each year-, age-, sex-, region- and cancer-specific cohort of incident cases. See for more details: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-021-09109-4
Years Lived with Disability: Years Lived with Disability (YLDs) were calculated using both an incidence and prevalence perspective as a measure of morbidity. YLDs are calculated as the product of the number of prevalent cases with the disability weight (DW), averaged over the different health states of the disease. The DWs reflect the relative reduction in quality of life, on a scale from 0 (perfect health) to 1 (death). We calculate YLDs using the Global Burden of Disease DWs.
Overview
- Alternative Titles / Acronym
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- BeBOD
- Keywords
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Belgium BeBOD Burden of disease Morbidity Years Lived with Disability Cancer
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- ENG
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Aggregated data on healthcare needs, resources allocated to healthcare, the provision of and access to healthcare, healthcare expenditure and financing Population-based health data registries (public health registries)
- Population Coverage
- People included in the Belgian Cancer Registry.
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What are the most important diseases in Belgium? Which risk factors contribute most to the overall disease burden? How is the burden of disease evolving over time, and how does it differ across the country? In a context of increasing budgetary constraints, a precise answer to these basic questions is more than ever necessary to inform policy-making. To address this need, Sciensano is conducting a national burden of disease study. In addition to generating internally consistent estimates of death rate (mortality) or how unhealthy we are (morbidity) by age, sex and region, the burden of disease will also be quantified using Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). The use of DALY allows to estimate the years of life lost from premature death and years of life lived with disabilities. It therefore permits a truly comparative ranking of the burden of various diseases, injuries and risk factors.
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- Provenance
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- The estimates of the burden of cancer in Belgium are based on the official cancer incidence data compiled by the Belgian Cancer Registry.
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Spatial Information
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- BE
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http://data.europa.eu/nuts/code/BE
Additional Information
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Statistical
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- HDAB
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Brecht DevleesschauwerSciensano
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- v2023-11-17
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- https://zenodo.org/search?q=metadata.subjects.subject%253A%22BeBOD%22&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=bestmatch
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Distributions & Resources
https://zenodo.org/records/10148439
https://www.hda.belgium.be/en/data_request
https://burden.sciensano.be/shiny/cancer/
BeBOD cancer data visualisation tool