Cancer Survival
Book chapter in the International Encyclopedia of Public Health
Population-based cancer survival statistics indicate the survival of all persons diagnosed with cancer in a given population.
Survival for the different types of cancer differs widely, and survival is usually estimated separately for each type of cancer.
This article illustrates how to estimate and interpret the observed, cause-specific and relative survival proportions, the
proportion of cured patients, the mean survival time and the proportion of persons who die from cancer, and how to obtain
age-standardized estimates and the effects of prognostic factors using regression modeling. Finally, some issues and limits for
the interpretation of the estimates are elucidated.
SEPPÄ Karri;
RUTHERFORD Mark J;
DYBA Tadek;
2024-12-04
Academic Press
JRC140419
978-0-323-97280-2 (online),
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780323999670001538,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC140419,
10.1016/B978-0-12-803678-5.00051-5 (online),
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