Comparison of the lung cancer patient population predicted by our model (1988 to 1999) with data from the SEER database (from 1988 to 1999 and from 2004 to 2008).

Abstract

<p>*TNM staging being unavailable in SEER before 2004, we categorized tumors as localized, regional, and distant, for patients between 1988 and 1999.</p><p>**Smoking status is not reported in SEER.</p>£<p>Excluding missing stage.</p