Menu
Back to Journals » Clinical Epidemiology » Volume 12
Summarizing and Communicating on Survival Data According to the Audience: A Tutorial on Different Measures Illustrated with Population-Based Cancer Registry Data [Corrigendum]
Authors Belot A , Ndiaye A , Luque-Fernandez MA , Kipourou DK , Maringe C , Rubio FJ , Rachet B
Received 21 July 2020
Accepted for publication 21 July 2020
Published 19 August 2020 Volume 2020:12 Pages 889—890
Belot A, Ndiaye A, Luque-Fernandez MA, et al. Clin Epidemiol. 2019;11:53–65.
Page 57, Number of life years lost (NLYL) section, left column, the sentence “where the quantity 1–FP(t) can be replaced by SP(t), ie, the classical survival function using the population mortality rates λP” placed immediately after equation 14 indicates that the quantity 1–FP(t) could be replaced by SP(t). This is wrong as the one-to-one relationship between hazard and risk applies only in all-cause mortality setting but not in competing risks settings (such as the cause-specific or relative survival setting). Indeed, FP (t) depends on both hazards (cancer and other causes) through the overall survival S(t).
The authors therefore request the reader to ignore this sentence and apologize for this error.
© 2020 The Author(s). This work is published by Dove Medical Press Limited, and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
The license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.