Implications of incomplete registration of deaths on long-term survival estimates from population-based cancer registries

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 432-437

  Brenner, Hermann ^a   Hakulinen, Timo ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cancer registries; Prognosis; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLON CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; MOUTH CANCER; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE CANCER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECTUM CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL TIME; THYROID CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VALIDITY; CLASSIFICATION; HEALTH SURVEY; NEOPLASM; REGISTER; SURVIVOR;

DEATH CERTIFICATES; FINLAND; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROBABILITY; REGISTRIES; SURVIVORS;

EID: 67449084183     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.24344     Document Type: Article

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