Age-standardized expected years of life lost: quantification of cancer severity
Abstract Background The critical implications of the expected years of life lost (EYLL) index of cancer for health policy assessments have been largely overlooked. We advocate to standardize life lost indices. Methods Using the Taiwan Cancer Registry database as an example, we calculated the EYLL an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-05-01
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| Series: | BMC Public Health |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-019-6843-9 |