Analysing population-based cancer survival - settling the controversies

BMC Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Pohar Perme, Maja ^a   Estève, Jacques ^b   Rachet, Bernard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

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

Author keywords

Cancer registries; Net survival; Population based studies; Relative survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLON CANCER; CRUDE MORTALITY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NET SURVIVAL; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSTATE CANCER; RELATIVE SURVIVAL RATIO; SLOVENIA; SURVIVAL; ALGORITHM; COLON TUMOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSTATE TUMOR; REGISTER; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SLOVENIA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 85001055566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-016-2967-9     Document Type: Article

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