Prevalence data provided by cancer registries are generally biased, since the patients that were diagnosed before the starting of the registry's activity cannot be included in the statistics. The relevance of this incompleteness bias is estimated in this paper. Incidence and relative survival are mo
Getting cancer prevalence right: using state cancer registry data to estimate cancer survivors
β Scribed by William R. Carpenter; Wei-Shi Yeh; Sara E. Wobker; Paul A. Godley
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 383 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0957-5243
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