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From: Incorporating competing risk theory into evaluations of changes in cancer survival: making the most of cause of death and routinely linked sociodemographic data

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Adjusted* cumulative probability of death from index cancer# in Western Australia for major cancer types combined and selected cancers diagnosed 1983 to 2011, by sub-period. *Age, sex, period, Indigenous status, socioeconomic quintile, accessibility to health services and, for the major cancer types combined analysis, cancer type. Covariates are held at the mean of the observations in the respective cancer cohort used in the model. Thus the probability of cancer death is adjusted for these factors across each time period. Note curves show within sample estimations (i.e. no extrapolation of the probability of death beyond the follow-up time is shown in this figure). #Index cancer refers to the first invasive primary cancer of each type

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