Partitioning of excess mortality in population-based cancer patient survival studies using flexible parametric survival models
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Relative survival is commonly used for studying survival of cancer patients as it captures both the direct and indirect contribution of a cancer diagnosis on mortality by comparing the observed survival of the patients to the expecte...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2012-06-01
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| Series: | BMC Medical Research Methodology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/12/86 |