Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8447021 | European Journal of Cancer | 2011 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Our results show that the bias is sufficiently small to be ignorable for most applications, notably for cancers with high or low mortality and for younger age groups (<60Â years). However, the bias in relative survival estimates can be greater than 1 percent unit for older age groups for common cancers and even larger for all sites combined. For example, the bias in 10-year relative survival for men aged 75+ diagnosed with prostate cancer was 2.6 percent units, which we think is of sufficient magnitude to warrant adjustment.
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Authors
Mats Talbäck, Paul W. Dickman,