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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...

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Autores principales: Eloranta, Sandra, Lambert, Paul C, Andersson, Therese ML, Czene, Kamila, Hall, Per, Björkholm, Magnus, Dickman, Paul W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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