Choosing the net survival method for cancer survival estimation

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1123-1129

  Seppä, Karri ^a,b   Hakulinen, Timo ^a   Pokhrel, Arun ^a  

^a FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Epidemiologic methods; Models; Neoplasms; Net survival; Prognosis; Relative survival

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVERAGE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EDERER II METHOD; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; POHAR PERME NET SURVIVAL ESTIMATOR; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; COLON TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FINLAND; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; LIVER TUMOR; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; REGISTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84929957518     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: 18790852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2013.09.019     Document Type: Article

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