Open AccessCompeting Risk Approach (CRA) for Estimation of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY’s) for Female Breast Cancer in India
Author(s) -
Radhika Kunnavil,
Chethana Thirthahalli,
Shalini Chandrashekar Nooyi,
N S Shivaraj,
N S Murthy
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2015/13082.6590
Subject(s) - years of potential life lost , medicine , breast cancer , demography , incidence (geometry) , cohort , population , disability adjusted life year , mortality rate , cancer , disease burden , estimation , life expectancy , environmental health , surgery , physics , sociology , optics , management , economics
Competing Risk Approach (CRA) has been used to compute burden of disease in terms of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) based on a life table for an initially disease-free cohort over time.