Prevalent cases in observational studies of cancer survival: Do they bias hazard ratio estimates

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1806-1811

  Azzato, E M ^a,b   Greenberg, D ^c   Shah, M ^a   Blows, F ^a   Driver, K E ^a   Caporaso, N E ^b   Pharoah, P D P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Eastern Cancer Registration and Information Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Left truncation; Prevalent cases; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; HAZARD RATIO; HISTOPATHOLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREVALENCE; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67349087951     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605062     Document Type: Article

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