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

• Váldodahkkit: Cameron M. Wright (Dahkki), Anna K. Nowak (Dahkki), Georgia Halkett (Dahkki), Rachael E. Moorin (Dahkki)
• Materiálatiipa: Girji
• Almmustuhtton: BMC, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Fáttát: article
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Abstract 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 wit...