On the choice of timescale for other cause mortality in a competing risk setting using flexible parametric survival models.

ABSTRACT: In competing risks settings where the events are death due to cancer and death due to other causes, it is common practice to use time since diagnosis as the timescale for all competing events. However, attained age has been proposed as a more natural choice of timescale for modeling other cause mortality. We examine the choice of using time since diagnosis versus attained age as the timescale when modeling other cause mortality, assuming that the hazard rate is a function of attained age, and how this choice can influence the cumulative incidence functions ( C I F $CIF$ s) derived using

SUBMITTER: Skourlis N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9795972 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature