Conditional survival of cancer patients: An Australian perspective

BMC Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Yu, Xue Q ^a,b   Baade, Peter D ^c,d   O'Connell, Dianne L ^a,b,e,f  

^a CANCER RESEARCH DIVISION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c VIERTEL CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN CANCER CONTROL   (Australia)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Cancer registry; Conditional survival; Relative survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS CANCER; PROSTATE CANCER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; NEW SOUTH WALES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867072747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-12-460     Document Type: Article

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