ESTIMATING THE COMPLETENESS OF PREVALENC
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R. CAPOCACCIA; R. DE ANGELIS
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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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