After accounting for competing causes of death and more advanced stage, do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with cancer still have worse survival? A population-based cohort study in New South Wales

After accounting for competing causes of death and more advanced stage, do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with cancer still have worse survival? A population-based cohort study in New South Wales

Abstract Background Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia have been found to have poorer cancer survival than non-Aboriginal people. However, use of conventional relative survival analyses is limited due to a lack of life tables. This cohort study examined whether poorer surviva...

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Main Authors: Hanna E. Tervonen, Richard Walton, Hui You, Deborah Baker, David Roder, David Currow, Sanchia Aranda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-06-01
Series:BMC Cancer
Subjects:
Neoplasms
Staging
Indigenous
Survival analysis
Australia
Epidemiology
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-017-3374-6

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