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Age adjustment of cancer survival rates: methods, point estimates and standard errors

We empirically evaluated the performance of a new method for age adjustment of cancer survival compared to traditional age adjustment using data from the Finnish Cancer Registry. We find that both methods provide almost identical results for absolute survival but the new method generally provides mo...

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Autores principales: Brenner, H, Hakulinen, T
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2361559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16052220
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6602704