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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
October 2024
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. Electronic address:
JAMA Surg
January 2025
RAND Health, RAND, Boston, Massachusetts.
Br J Dermatol
December 2024
Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
AJR Am J Roentgenol
April 2024
Inova Health System, Fairfax Radiological Consultants, Fairfax, VA.
Health Rep
December 2023
Centre for Population Health Data, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
Background: The validity of survival estimates from cancer registry data depends, in part, on the identification of the deaths of deceased cancer patients. People whose deaths are missed seemingly live on forever and are informally referred to as "immortals." Their presence in registry data can result in inflated survival estimates.
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