Summarizing and Communicating on Survival Data According to the Audience: A Tutorial on Different Measures Illustrated with Population-Based Cancer Registry Data [Corrigendum]

Belot A, Ndiaye A, Luque-Fernandez MA, et al. ClinEpidemiol. 2019;11:53-65. Page 57, Number of life years lost (NLYL) section, leftcolumn, the sentence "where the quantity 1-FP(t) can bereplaced by SP(t), ie, the classical survival function usingthe population mortality rates λP" placed im...

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Published in:Clinical epidemiology 2020-08, Vol.12, p.889-890
Main Authors: Belot, Aurélien, Ndiaye, Aminata, Luque-Fernandez, Miguel-Angel, Kipourou, Dimitra-Kleio, Maringe, Camille, Rubio, Francisco Javier, Rachet, Bernard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cancer
competing risks
conditional survival
Corrigendum
crude probability of death
net survival
number of life years lost
relative survival setting
restricted mean survival time
survival
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Summary:Belot A, Ndiaye A, Luque-Fernandez MA, et al. ClinEpidemiol. 2019;11:53-65. Page 57, Number of life years lost (NLYL) section, leftcolumn, the sentence "where the quantity 1-FP(t) can bereplaced by SP(t), ie, the classical survival function usingthe population mortality rates λP" placed immediately afterequation 14 indicates that the quantity 1-FP(t) could bereplaced by SP(t). This is wrong as the one-to-one relationshipbetween hazard and risk applies only in all-causemortality setting but not in competing risks settings (suchas the cause-specific or relative survival setting). Indeed, FP(t) depends on both hazards (cancer and other causes)through the overall survival S(t). The authors therefore request the reader to ignore thissentence and apologize for this error. Read the original article
ISSN:1179-1349
1179-1349
DOI:10.2147/CLEP.S273165