Comparison of different approaches to estimating age standardized net survival
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- 作者：Paul C. Lambert ; Paul W. Dickman ; Mark J. Rutherford
- 关键词：Net survival ; Relative survival ; Epidemiology
- 刊名：BMC Medical Research Methodology
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：December 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：15
- 期：1
- 全文大小：2,392 KB
- 刊物主题：Theory of Medicine/Bioethics; Statistical Theory and Methods; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2288
文摘
Background Age-standardized net survival provides an important population-based summary of cancer survival that appropriately accounts for differences in other-cause mortality rates and standardizes the population age distribution to allow fair comparisons. Recently, there has been debate over the most appropriate method for estimating this quantity, with the traditional Ederer II approach being shown to have potential bias.