Choice of Survival Metric and Its Impacts on Cancer Survival Estimates for American Indian and Alaska Native People.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Different survival metrics have different applicability to clinical practice and research. We evaluated how choice of survival metric influences assessment of cancer survival among American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) people relative to non-Hispanic Whites (NHW). A secondary objective was to present variations in survival among AIAN people by age, sex, stage, and Indian Health Service (IHS) region.

Methods

Five-year survival was calculated using the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries Cancer in North America dataset. We calculated survival among AIAN people, compared with NHW using four approaches: (i) observed (crude) survival, (ii) cause-specific survival, (iii) relative survival using age- and sex-adjusted lifetables, and (iv) relative s

SUBMITTER: Nash SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9992150 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature