Re: Risk Charts: Putting Cancer in Context
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- 16 October 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
- Vol. 94 (20) , 1584-1585
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/94.20.1584
Abstract
In a recent issue of the Journal, Woloshin et al. (1) presented age- and sex-specific 10-year risk charts for various causes of death for current smokers and nonsmokers. We believe that the estimates in the charts could be improved by 1) considering current smokers, former smokers, and never smokers as distinct groups when estimating individual risks from population rates; and 2) considering competing risks by accounting for the fact that a change in the absolute risk of a particular cause of death alters the risk of other causes of death.Keywords
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