Cancer survival: left truncation and comparison of results from hospital-based cancer registry and population-based cancer registry

BackgroundCancer survival is an important indicator for evaluating cancer prognosis and cancer care outcomes. The incidence dates used in calculating survival differ between population-based registries and hospital-based registries. Studies examining the effects of the left truncation of incidence d...

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Main Authors: Jian-Guo Chen, Hai-Zhen Chen, Jian Zhu, Ai-Guo Shen, Xiang-Yang Sun, Donald Maxwell Parkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fonc.2023.1173828/full