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Different survival analysis methods for measuring long-term outcomes of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian cancer patients in the presence and absence of competing risks

BACKGROUND: Net survival is the most common measure of cancer prognosis and has been used to study differentials in cancer survival between ethnic or racial population subgroups. However, net survival ignores competing risks of deaths and so provides incomplete prognostic information for cancer pati...

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Autores principales: He, Vincent Y. F., Condon, John R., Baade, Peter D., Zhang, Xiaohua, Zhao, Yuejen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5240232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28095862
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12963-016-0118-9