Survival Analysis of Breast Cancer Patients after Surgery with an Intermediate Event: Application of Illness-Death Model

Background: Breast cancer (BC) is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer after lung cancer. Survival of BC patients is affected by intermediate events. This study was aimed to investigate the disease course of primary non-metastatic BC patients with first recurrence of the tumor (FRT) as the int...

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Main Authors: Morteza HAJIHOSSEINI, Javad FARADMAL, Abdolazim SADIGHI-PASHAKI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2015-12-01
Series:Iranian Journal of Public Health
Online Access:https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/5564