Correcting for misclassification and selection effects in estimating net survival in clinical trials

Correcting for misclassification and selection effects in estimating net survival in clinical trials

Abstract Background Net survival, a measure of the survival where the patients would only die from the cancer under study, may be compared between treatment groups using either “cause-specific methods”, when the causes of death are known and accurate, or “population-based methods”, when the causes a...

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Main Authors: Juste Aristide Goungounga, Célia Touraine, Nathalie Grafféo, Roch Giorgi, the CENSUR working survival group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-05-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Subjects:
Cause of death
Cancer clinical trials
Life tables
Excess hazard model
Net survival
Selection bias
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-019-0747-3

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