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Incorporating competing risk theory into evaluations of changes in cancer survival: making the most of cause of death and routinely linked sociodemographic data

BACKGROUND: Relative survival is the most common method used for measuring survival from population-based registries. However, the relative survival concept of ‘survival as far as the cancer is concerned’ can be biased due to differing non-cancer risk of death in the population with cancer (competin...

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Autores principales: Wright, Cameron M., Nowak, Anna K., Halkett, Georgia, Moorin, Rachael E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7318745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32586298
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09084-8

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