Age adjustment of cancer survival rates: methods, point estimates and standard errors

被引：10

作者：

Brenner, H

Hakulinen, T

机构：

[1] German ctr Res Ageing, Dept Epidemiol, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany

[2] Finnish Canc Registry, Inst Stat & Epidemiol Canc Res, FIN-00170 Helsinki, Finland

来源：

BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER | 2005年 / 93卷 / 03期

基金：

芬兰科学院;

关键词：

age adjustment; cancer registries; survival;

D O I：

10.1038/sj.bjc.6602704

中图分类号：

R73 [肿瘤学];

学科分类号：

100214 ;

摘要：

We empirically evaluated the performance of a new method for age adjustment of cancer survival compared to traditional age adjustment using data from the Finnish Cancer Registry. We find that both methods provide almost identical results for absolute survival but the new method generally provides more meaningful estimates of relative survival with often a smaller standard error.

引用

页码：372 / 375

页数：4

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