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Age-standardized expected years of life lost: quantification of cancer severity
BACKGROUND: The critical implications of the expected years of life lost (EYLL) index of cancer for health policy assessments have been largely overlooked. We advocate to standardize life lost indices. METHODS: Using the Taiwan Cancer Registry database as an example, we calculated the EYLL and the a...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6498471/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31046731 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6843-9 |