Front-line intraperitoneal versus intravenous chemotherapy in stage III-IV epithelial ovarian, tubal, and peritoneal cancer with minimal residual disease: a competing risk analysis

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• 作者：Yen-Hou Chang ; Wai-Hou Li ; Yi Chang ; Chia-Wen Peng ; Ching-Hsuan Cheng…
• 关键词：Competing risk ; Ovarian cancer ; Intraperitoneal chemotherapy ; Propensity score ; Subdistribution hazard ratio
• 刊名：BMC Cancer
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 全文大小：731 KB
• 刊物主题：Cancer Research; Oncology; Stem Cells; Animal Models; Internal Medicine;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2407

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Background In the analysis of survival data for cancer patients, the problem of competing risks is often ignored. Competing risks have been recognized as a special case of time-to-event analysis. The conventional techniques for time-to-event analysis applied in the presence of competing risks often give biased or uninterpretable results.