Effect of misclassified underlying cause of death on survival estimates of colon and rectal cancer

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 103, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1130-1133

  Yin, Daixin ^a   Morris, Cyllene R ^a   Bates, Janet H ^b   German, Robert R ^c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Cancer Surveillance Section   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CAUSE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DEATH CERTIFICATES; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79960732527     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djr207     Document Type: Article

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