Estimating complete prevalence of cancers diagnosed in childhood

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 990-1007

  Simonetti, Arianna ^a,b,c   Gigli, Anna ^c   Capocacia, Riccardo ^a   Mariotto, Angela ^d  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer registry; Completeness index; Limited duration prevalence

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER REGISTRY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMETRIC TEST; PREVALENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONNECTICUT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEER PROGRAM;

EID: 40949147008     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3010     Document Type: Article

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