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Population-based monitoring of cancer patient survival in situations with imperfect completeness of cancer registration

Selective underascertainment of cases may bias estimates of cancer patient survival. We show that the magnitude of potential bias strongly depends on the time periods affected by underascertainment and on the type of survival analysis (cohort analysis vs period analysis). We outline strategies on ho...

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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/PMC2362075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15655546
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6602323