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Partitioning of excess mortality in population-based cancer patient survival studies using flexible parametric survival models
BACKGROUND: Relative survival is commonly used for studying survival of cancer patients as it captures both the direct and indirect contribution of a cancer diagnosis on mortality by comparing the observed survival of the patients to the expected survival in a comparable cancer-free population. Howe...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3526518/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22726307 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-12-86 |