Lietzén N, Pitkäniemi J, Heinävaara S, Ilmonen P. On Exploring Hidden Structures Behind Cervical Cancer Incidence.
Cancer Control 2018;
25:1073274818801604. [PMID:
30251557 PMCID:
PMC6156216 DOI:
10.1177/1073274818801604]
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Abstract
Finding new etiological components is of great interest in disease epidemiology.
We consider time series version of invariant coordinate selection (tICS) as an
exploratory tool in the search of hidden structures in the analysis of
population-based registry data. Increasing cancer burden inspired us to consider
a case study of age-stratified cervical cancer incidence in Finland between the
years 1953 and 2014. The latent components, which we uncover using tICS, show
that the etiology of cervical cancer is age dependent. This is in line with
recent findings related to the epidemiology of cervical cancer. Furthermore, we
are able to explain most of the variation of cervical cancer incidence in
different age groups by using only two latent tICS components. The second tICS
component, in particular, is interesting since it separates the age groups into
three distinct clusters. The factor that separates the three clusters is the
median age of menopause occurrence.
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