Cancer-specific survival of patients with multiple cancers: An application to patients with multiple breast cancers

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 3183-3195

  Heinavaara S ^a   Teppo, L ^a   Hakulinen, T ^a,b  

^a FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cancer specific survival; Cause specific survival; Multiple priamry cancers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE CANCER; ONSET AGE; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037110545     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1247     Document Type: Article

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