The Cancer Mortality Risk Project - Cancer Mortality Risks by Anatomic Site: Part 1 - Introductory Overview; Part II - Carcinoma of the Colon: 20-Year Mortality Follow-up Derived from 1973-2013 (NCI) SEER*Stat Survival Database.

This introductory overview describes the recommencement of the Cancer Mortality Risks project, a systematic medical-actuarial comparative analysis of selected cancer mortality risks originally initiated by the authors in the year 2002 utilizing the National Cancer Institute (NCI) SEER*Stat 4.2.3 (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results) database between 1973 and 2002 and released April 3, 2002. This study is based on approximately 40 major invasive cancer anatomic sites used in previous conversions of the National Cancer Institute SEER survival data to comparative mortality in the Medical Risks monographs published in 19761 and 1990.2 Anatomic site-specific cancer mortality abstracts of SEER survival data containing 20-year comparative mortality follow-up by cohort entry-period, histologic type, age, sex, race, stage, grade and other variables was proposed for publication as a monograph, compendium or a series of concise but detailed mortality articles.