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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |