Cancer Epidemiology
Volume 36, Issue 2 , Pages 148-152 , April 2012

Adjusting for the proportion of cancer deaths in the general population when using relative survival: A sensitivity analysis

  • Sally R. Hinchliffe

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Sciences, Centre for Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Paul W. Dickman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Paul C. Lambert

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Sciences, Centre for Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
    • Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Received 9 August 2011 ,Accepted 20 September 2011.

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PII: S1877-7821(11)00148-2

doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2011.09.007

Cancer Epidemiology
Volume 36, Issue 2 , Pages 148-152 , April 2012