Open Access<p>Reporting net survival in populations: a sensitivity analysis in lung cancer demonstrates the differential implications of reporting relative survival and cause-specific survival</p>
Author(s) -
Kay See Tan,
Takashi Eguchi,
Prasad S. Adusumilli
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
clinical epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.868
H-Index - 58
ISSN - 1179-1349
DOI - 10.2147/clep.s210894
Subject(s) - medicine , overall survival , lung cancer , relative survival , oncology , survival analysis , cancer , cancer registry
Net survival is commonly quantified as relative survival (observed survival among lung cancer patients versus expected survival among the general population) and cause-specific survival (lung cancer-specific survival among lung cancer patients). These approaches have drastically different assumptions; hence, failure to distinguish between them results in significant implications for study findings. We quantified the differences between relative and cause-specific survival when reporting net survival of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).