Incidence of cancer in NHS Borders

Data Analysis using R

This is an data analysis based on cancer indicence data available from The Scottish Health and Social Care Open Data platform

The aim of the analysis was to aid better understanding of the incidence of cancer in NHS Borders to help inform the planning for provision of cancer treatment services in NHS Borders.

The full analysis report is available here (PDF document).

The analysis was carried out using the statistical programming language R. The code for the underlaying analysis is available here (Rmd file).

An example of included visualizations:

• Overview of the frequency of the cancer sites (NHS Borders, 1994-2018)

• Crude Rate and Standardised Incidence Ratio for 6 most frequent cancer sites by incidence (NHS Borders, 1994-2018)