Matters of data openness and KapWeb, a web tool of multi-cancer survival analysis for cancer survivors

Cancer Sci. 2021 May;112(5):2060-2062. doi: 10.1111/cas.14788. Epub 2021 Mar 10.

Abstract

KapWeb is an interactive tool for the determination of cancer survival rates based on case outcomes compiled from more than half a million records from cancer registries all over Japan, and we believe that both the tool and the call for data openness and transparency are important.

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Cancer Survivors / statistics & numerical data*
  • Databases, Factual / statistics & numerical data*
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Japan / epidemiology
  • Life Expectancy
  • Neoplasms / epidemiology
  • Neoplasms / mortality*
  • Probability
  • Registries / statistics & numerical data*
  • Survival Rate
  • Time Factors