What is the lifetime risk of developing cancer?: the effect of adjusting for multiple primaries

BACKGROUND: The ‘lifetime risk’ of cancer is generally estimated by combining current incidence rates with current all-cause mortality (‘current probability’ method) rather than by describing the experience of a birth cohort. As individuals may get more than one type of cancer, what is generally est...

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Autores principales: Sasieni, P D, Shelton, J, Ormiston-Smith, N, Thomson, C S, Silcocks, P B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2011
Materias:
Epidemiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3172907/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21772332
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2011.250

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3172907/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21772332
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2011.250

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