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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Short Communication
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
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spelling pubmed-23615592009-09-10 Age adjustment of cancer survival rates: methods, point estimates and standard errors Brenner, H Hakulinen, T Br J Cancer Short Communication 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 more meaningful estimates of relative survival with often a smaller standard error. Nature Publishing Group 2005-08-08 2005-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC2361559/ /pubmed/16052220 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6602704 Text en Copyright © 2005 Cancer Research UK https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2361559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16052220
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