Standard errors of non-standardised and age-standardised relative survival of cancer patients

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 569-574

  Jansen, L ^a   Hakulinen, T ^b   Brenner, H ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Epidemiologic methods; Registries; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE SPECIFIC CARE; AGED; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; FINLAND; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856439889     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2011.560     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Brenner H, Gefeller O, Hakulinen T (2002) A computer program for period analysis of cancer patient survival. Eur J Cancer 38: 690-695 (Pubitemid 34251393)
2. Brenner H, Hakulinen T (2005) Substantial overestimation of standard errors of relative survival rates of cancer patients. Am J Epidemiol 161: 781-786
3. Corazziari I, Quinn M, Capocaccia R (2004) Standard cancer patient population for age standardising survival ratios. Eur J Cancer 40: 2307-2316 (Pubitemid 39348882)
4. Ederer F, Axtell LM, Cutler SJ (1961) The relative survival rate: a statistical methodology. Natl Cancer Inst Monogr 6: 101-121
5. Ederer F, Heise H (1959) Instructions to IBM 650 Programmers in Processing Survival Computations. National Cancer Institute: Bethesda (MD)
6. Estéve J, Benhamou E, Raymond L (1994) Statistical methods in cancer research. Vol IV. Descriptive epidemiology. IARC Scientific Publications No. 128: Lyon
7. Greenwood M (1926) The Natural Duration of Cancer. England: His Majesty's Stationary Office: London
8. Hakulinen T (1982) Cancer survival corrected for heterogeneity in patient withdrawal. Biometrics 38: 933-942
9. Hakulinen T, Seppä K, Lambert PC (2011) Choosing the relative survival method for cancer survival estimation. Eur J Cancer 47(14): 2202-2210
10. Parkin DM, Hakulinen T (1991) Cancer registration: principles and methods. Analysis of survival. IARC Scientific Publication No. 95: Lyon, pp 159-176
11. Pohar Perme M, Stare J, Esteve J (2011) On estimation in relative survival. Biometrics (EPub ahead of Print)
12. Pokhrel A, Hakulinen T (2008) How to interpret the relative survival ratios of cancer patients. Eur J Cancer 44(17): 2661-2667
13. Teppo L, Pukkala E, Lehtonen M (1994) Data quality and quality control of a population-based cancer registry. Experience in Finland. Acta Oncol 33: 365-369 (Pubitemid 24207996)
14. Verdecchia A, Capocaccia R, Santaquilani M, Hakulinen T (1999) Methods of survival data analysis and presentation issues. In Survival of Cancer Patients in Europe: the EUROCARE-2 Study. IARC Scientific Publications, Berrino F, Capocaccia R, Estève J, Gatta G, Hakulinen T, Micheli A, Sant M, Verdecchia A (eds) Vol. 151, pp 41-45. International Agency for Research in Cancer: Lyon