Partitioning of excess mortality in population-based cancer patient survival studies using flexible parametric survival models

Table 2 Sensitivity of cause-of-death classification

	At risk	Observed CVD deaths	Expected CVD deaths	Excess deaths (ED)	Proportion of misclassified CVD deaths required to reduce the ED:s by 10,15 and 20 %
	At risk	Observed CVD deaths	Expected CVD deaths	Excess deaths (ED)	10%	15%	20%
Year of Diagnosis:
1973-1977
≤49 years	3339	35	11.9	23.1	6.6	10.0	13.1
50-59 years	3713	127	42.4	84.6	6.7	10.0	13.3
60-69 years	4522	600	205.3	394.7	6.6	9.9	13.2
70-79 years	4009	1313	621.8	691.2	5.3	7.9	10.5
Year of Diagnosis:
1978-1982
≤49 years	3447	28	10.5	17.5	6.4	9.3	12.5
50-59 years	3750	127	42.1	84.9	6.7	10.0	13.4
60-69 years	4933	607	219.4	387.6	6.4	9.6	12.8
70-79 years	4898	1592	733.7	859.3	5.4	8.1	10.8
Year of Diagnosis:
1983-1987
≤49 years	3894	29	9.5	19.5	6.9	10.0	13.4
50-59 years	3463	122	33.5	88.5	7.3	10.9	14.5
60-69 years	5055	571	203.1	367.9	6.4	9.7	12.9
70-79 years	5155	1554	696.3	857.7	5.5	8.3	11.0
Year of Diagnosis:
1988-1992
≤49 years	4640	44	12.2	31.8	7.3	10.9	14.5
50-59 years	4308	106	40.5	65.5	6.2	9.2	12.4
60-69 years	6200	598	240.6	357.4	6.0	9.0	12.0
70-79 years	5329	1485	630.9	854.1	5.8	8.6	11.5

The impact of misclassification of CVD deaths as non-CVD deaths among the cancer patients on excess mortality.

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