Cancer Survival Analysis - General
Belot, Aurélien, Aminata Ndiaye, Miguel-Angel Luque-Fernandez, Dimitra-Kleio Kipourou, Camille Maringe, Francisco Javier Rubio, and Bernard Rachet. Summarizing and communicating on survival data according to the audience: a tutorial on different measures illustrated with population-based cancer registry data. Clinical Epidemiology 2019;1:53-65. [https://doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S173523]
S. Eloranta, K. E. Smedby, P. W. Dickman, and T. M. Andersson. Cancer survival statistics for patients and healthcare professionals - a tutorial of real-world data analysis. Journal of Internal Medicine 2021;289:1228. [https://doi.org/10.1111/joim.13139]
Non-parametric estimates of net/relative survival
Maja Pohar Perme, Janez Stare, Jacques Estève. On estimation in relative survival. Biometrics 2012;113:20. [https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01640.x]
Lambert PC, Dickman PW, Rutherford MJ. Comparison of approaches to estimating age-standardized net survival. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2015;34:3378-80. [https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.6606]
Modelling in the relative survival framework
Nelson CP, Lambert PC, Squire IB, Jones DR. Flexible parametric models for relative survival, with application in coronary heart disease. Statistics in Medicine 2007;26:5486-98. [https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.6606]
Syriopoulou E, Mozumder SI, Rutherford MJ, Lambert PC. Robustness of individual and marginal model-based estimates: A sensitivity analysis of flexible parametric models. Cancer Epidemiology 2018;58:17-24. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2018.10.017]
Causal inferenece in the relative survival framework
Syriopoulou E, Rutherford MJ, Lambert PC. Marginal measures and causal effects using the relative survival framework. International Journal of Epidemiology 2020;49:619-28. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyz268.]
Syriopoulou E, Rutherford MJ, Lambert PC. Understanding disparities in cancer prognosis: An extension of mediation analysis to the relative survival framework. CBiometrical Journal 2021;63:341-53. [https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.201900355]
Competing Risks
Syriopoulou E, Mozumder SI, Rutherford MJ, Lambert PC. Estimating causal effects in the presence of competing events using regression standardisation with the stata command standsurv. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2022;22:226. [https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-022-01666-x]
Per Kragh Andersen, Ronald B Geskus, Theo de Witte, Hein Putter. Competing risks in epidemiology: possibilities and pitfalls. International Journal of Epidemiology 2012;41:861-70. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyr213]