Estimation of life expectancy and the expected years of life lost in patients with major cancers: Extrapolation of survival curves under high-censored rates

Value in Health

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1102-1109

  Chu, Po Ching ^a   Wang, Jung Der ^a,b   Hwang, Jing Shiang ^c   Chang, Yu Yin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Life expectancy; Lifetime extrapolation; Monte Carlo method; Survival; Years of life lost

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 53749096950     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4733.2008.00350.x     Document Type: Article

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