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- Title
What is the lifetime risk of developing cancer?: the effect of adjusting for multiple primaries.
- Authors
Sasieni, P D; Shelton, J; Ormiston-Smith, N; Thomson, C S; Silcocks, P B
- Abstract
The 'lifetime risk' of cancer is generally estimated by combining current incidence rates with current all-cause mortality ('current probability' method) rather than by describing the experience of a birth cohort. As individuals may get more than one type of cancer, what is generally estimated is the average (mean) number of cancers over a lifetime. This is not the same as the probability of getting cancer.
- Publication
British journal of cancer, 2011, Vol 105, Issue 3, p460
- ISSN
1532-1827
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/bjc.2011.250