"Assessing Changes in the Impact of Cancer on Population Survival Without Considering Cause of Death."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of the National Cancer Institute, "Background: We have previously argued against the calculation of cancer-specific death rates as philosophically undefined and biased. Deaths attributed to cancer during a particular year occur in patients diagnosed during an unknown distribution of past times, so cancer-specific death rates cannot be used to assess changes in the impact of cancer on survival of the population at specific periods of diagnosis, Purpose: Our goal was to develop and analyze three measures of the impact of cancer on population survival that do not use the attributed cause of death: 1) the...

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