Should cause of death from the death certificate be used to examine cancer-specific survival a study of patients with distant stage disease

Cancer Investigation

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 758-764

  Lund, Jennifer L ^a,b   Harlan, Linda C ^b   Yabroff, K Robin ^b   Warren, Joan L ^b  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cancer survival; Cause of death; Death certificate; Mortality; SEER program

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLON CANCER; DEATH CERTIFICATE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA COLLECTION; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; SEER PROGRAM;

EID: 77954775138     PISSN: 07357907     EISSN: 15324192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07357901003630959     Document Type: Article

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