Cause-specific or relative survival setting to estimate population-based net survival from cancer? An empirical evaluation using women diagnosed with breast cancer in Geneva between 1981 and 1991 and followed for 20 years after diagnosis

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 465-472

  Schaffar, Robin ^a,b   Rachet, Bernard ^b   Belot, Aurélien ^b   Woods, Laura ^b  

^a GENEVA CANCER REGISTRY   (Switzerland)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cause specific; Informative censoring; Net survival; Relative survival

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIFE TABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NET SURVIVAL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTOR; TUMOR INVASION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84929955497     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: 1877783X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2015.04.001     Document Type: Article

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