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Correcting inaccurate background mortality in excess hazard models through breakpoints

BACKGROUND: Methods for estimating relative survival are widely used in population-based cancer survival studies. These methods are based on splitting the observed (the overall) mortality into excess mortality (due to cancer) and background mortality (due to other causes, as expected in the general...

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Autores principales: Mba, Robert Darlin, Goungounga, Juste Aristide, Grafféo, Nathalie, Giorgi, Roch
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/PMC7596976/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33121436
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-01139-z