Estimating cancer prevalence using mixture models for cancer survival

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1257-1270

  Phillips, Norman ^a   Coldman, Andrew ^a   McBride, Mary L ^a  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAZARD; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PREVALENCE; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECTUM CANCER; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOMACH CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRITISH COLUMBIA; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0037093935     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1101     Document Type: Article

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