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Conditional survival for longer-term survivors from 2000–2004 using population-based cancer registry data in Osaka, Japan

BACKGROUND: We usually report five-year survival from population-based cancer registries in Japan; however these survival estimates may be pessimistic for cancer survivors, because many patients with unfavourable prognosis die shortly after diagnosis. Conditional survival can provide relevant inform...

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Autores principales: Ito, Yuri, Nakayama, Tomio, Miyashiro, Isao, Ioka, Akiko, Tsukuma, Hideaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3701478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23800306
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-13-304