The validity of the mortality to incidence ratio as a proxy for site-specific cancer survival
Background: The complement of the cancer mortality to incidence ratio [1 – ( M / I )] has been suggested as a valid proxy for 5-year relative survival. Whether this suggestion holds true for all types of cancer has not yet been adequately evaluated. Methods: We used publicly available databases of c...
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fthighwire:oai:open-archive.highwire.org:eurpub:ckq120v1 2023-05-15T16:50:50+02:00 The validity of the mortality to incidence ratio as a proxy for site-specific cancer survival Asadzadeh Vostakolaei, Fatemeh Karim-Kos, Henrike E. Janssen-Heijnen, Maryska L. G. Visser, Otto Verbeek, André L. M. Kiemeney, Lambertus A. L. M. 2010-09-02 09:19:30.0 text/html http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/ckq120v1 https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckq120 en eng Oxford University Press http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/ckq120v1 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckq120 Copyright (C) 2010, Oxford University Press Article TEXT 2010 fthighwire https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckq120 2013-05-27T14:33:00Z Background: The complement of the cancer mortality to incidence ratio [1 – ( M / I )] has been suggested as a valid proxy for 5-year relative survival. Whether this suggestion holds true for all types of cancer has not yet been adequately evaluated. Methods: We used publicly available databases of cancer incidence, cancer mortality and relative survival to correlate relative survival estimates and 1 – ( M / I ) estimates from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the USA and the Netherlands. We visually examined for which tumour sites 5-year relative survival cannot simply be predicted by the 1 – ( M / I ) and evaluated similarities between countries. Results: Country-specific linear regression analyses show that there is no systematic bias in predicting 5-year relative survival by 1 – ( M / I ) in five countries. There is a small but significant systematic underestimation of survival from prognostically poor tumour sites in two countries. Furthermore, the 1 – ( M / I ) overestimates survival from oral cavity and liver cancer with >10% in at least two of the seven countries. By contrast, the proxy underestimates survival from soft tissue, bone, breast, prostate and oesophageal cancer, multiple myeloma and leukaemia with >10% in at least two of the seven countries. Conclusion: The 1 – ( M / I ) is a good approximation of the 5-year relative survival for most but not all tumour sites. Text Iceland HighWire Press (Stanford University) Norway European Journal of Public Health 21 5 573 577 |
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Background: The complement of the cancer mortality to incidence ratio [1 – ( M / I )] has been suggested as a valid proxy for 5-year relative survival. Whether this suggestion holds true for all types of cancer has not yet been adequately evaluated. Methods: We used publicly available databases of cancer incidence, cancer mortality and relative survival to correlate relative survival estimates and 1 – ( M / I ) estimates from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the USA and the Netherlands. We visually examined for which tumour sites 5-year relative survival cannot simply be predicted by the 1 – ( M / I ) and evaluated similarities between countries. Results: Country-specific linear regression analyses show that there is no systematic bias in predicting 5-year relative survival by 1 – ( M / I ) in five countries. There is a small but significant systematic underestimation of survival from prognostically poor tumour sites in two countries. Furthermore, the 1 – ( M / I ) overestimates survival from oral cavity and liver cancer with >10% in at least two of the seven countries. By contrast, the proxy underestimates survival from soft tissue, bone, breast, prostate and oesophageal cancer, multiple myeloma and leukaemia with >10% in at least two of the seven countries. Conclusion: The 1 – ( M / I ) is a good approximation of the 5-year relative survival for most but not all tumour sites. |
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Asadzadeh Vostakolaei, Fatemeh Karim-Kos, Henrike E. Janssen-Heijnen, Maryska L. G. Visser, Otto Verbeek, André L. M. Kiemeney, Lambertus A. L. M. |
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The validity of the mortality to incidence ratio as a proxy for site-specific cancer survival |
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The validity of the mortality to incidence ratio as a proxy for site-specific cancer survival |
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The validity of the mortality to incidence ratio as a proxy for site-specific cancer survival |
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The validity of the mortality to incidence ratio as a proxy for site-specific cancer survival |
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The validity of the mortality to incidence ratio as a proxy for site-specific cancer survival |
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