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Table 1 Summary of area-level variation for National Health Priority Area cancers and CART analysis results

From: Identification of area-level influences on regions of high cancer incidence in Queensland, Australia: a classification tree approach

Type of cancer (ICD-O3 code)

Gender

Tango's MEET

Number of SLAs with high SIR (%)

Sensitivity

Specificity

Variables in final tree1,2

Colorectal cancer

M

0.693

NA

NA

NA

NA

(C18-C20, C218)

F

0.216

NA

NA

NA

NA

Lung (C33-C34)

M

0.001

153 (32%)

70.1%

74.9%

SEIFA, ARIA

 

F

0.001

83 (17%)

51.5%

82.7%

ARIA, SEIFA

Melanoma

M

0.001

91 (19%)

75.0%

49.8%

ARIA

(C44 and M872-M879)

F

0.004

54 (11%)

93.7%

31.1%

ARIA, SEIFA

Breast (C50)

F

0.001

79 (17%)

86.5%

58.1%

ARIA, SEIFA

Cervical (C53)

F

0.023

81 (17%)

79.2%

79.3%

ARIA, I, SEIFA

Prostate (C61)

M

0.001

93 (19%)

70.1%

58.5%

ARIA, SEIFA

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

M

0.001

57 (12%)

90.1%

38.7%

ARIA

(M959,M967-M971)

F

0.002

57 (12%)

97.2%

55.2%

ARIA

  1. 1. The final tree based on the lowest cross-validated error.
  2. 2. NA: since there was no evidence of area-level variation for colorectal cancer, additional analysis was not conducted for colorectal cancer.
  3. ARIA: Accessibility/Remoteness index of Australia
  4. I: Indigenous
  5. SEIFA: Socioeconomic indexes for areas