title: Age adjustment of cancer survival rates: methods, point estimates and standard errors.
abstract: We empirically evaluated the performance of a new method for age adjustment of cancer survival compared to traditional age adjustment using data from the Finnish Cancer Registry. We find that both methods provide almost identical results for absolute survival but the new method generally provides more meaningful estimates of relative survival with often a smaller standard error.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, German Centre for Research on Ageing, Bergheimer Strasse 20, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany. Brenner@dzfa.uni-heidelberg.de
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Brenner
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hakulinen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D016019:Survival Analysis; D015996:Survival Rate