Population-based monitoring of cancer patient survival in situations with imperfect completeness of cancer registration

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 576-579

  Brenner, H ^a   Hakulinen, T ^b  

^a GERMAN CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON AGEING   (Germany)

^b FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cancer registries; Prognosis; Statistical methods; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; FINLAND; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TIME; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; REGISTER; SURVIVAL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 15244343463     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6602323     Document Type: Article

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