Prostate cancer: net survival and cause-specific survival rates after multiple imputation

Prostate cancer: net survival and cause-specific survival rates after multiple imputation

BACKGROUND Estimations of survival rates are diverse and the choice of the appropriate method depends on the context. Given the increasing interest in multiple imputation methods, we explored the interest of a multiple imputation approach in the estimation of cause-specific survival, when a subset of causes of death was observed. METHODS By using European Randomized Study of Screening for Pro...

multiple imputation in survival models: applied on breast cancer data

Estimating the Net Survival of Patients with Gastric Cancer in Iran in a Relative Survival Framework

Background: Iran is an Eastern Mediterranean region country with the highest rate of gastric cancer. The present study aimed to evaluate the 5-year net survival of patients with gastric cancer in Iran using a relative survival framework.Methods: In a cross-sectional study, using life-table estimation of relative survival, we reported 1- to 5-year relative survival regarding age, sex, disease st...

Diet and survival after prostate cancer diagnosis.

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed non-skin cancer in men in the United States. Among environmental factors, diet may play a particularly important role in its incidence, progression, and clinical outcome. This article reviews the findings of eight observational studies and 17 intervention or laboratory trials on the effect of plant-based diets and plant nutrients on both the progre...

Survival estimation and testing via multiple imputation

Multiple imputation is a technique for handling data sets with missing values. The method 0lls in each missing value several times, creating many augmented data sets. Each augmented data set is analyzed separately and the results combined to give a 0nal result consisting of an estimate and a measure of uncertainty. In this paper we consider nonparametric multiple-imputation methods to handle mi...