Long-term survival with non-proportional hazards: Results from the Dutch Gastric Cancer Trial

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 2807-2821

  Putter, H ^a   Sasako, M ^b   Hartgrink, H H ^a   van de Velde, C J H ^a   van Houwelingen, J C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Long term survival; Non proportional hazards; Time dependent covariate effects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LONG TERM CARE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NETHERLANDS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; BIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 25444479703     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2143     Document Type: Article

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