Table 3 Ten-year cause-specific survival corrected for misclassification of cause of death.

From: Errors in determination of net survival: cause-specific and relative survival settings

Age group

Correction applieda

Lung

Prostate

Breast

Ovary

Oesophagus

Colorectal

Men

Women

Men

Women

Women

Men

Women

Men

Women

15–99 years

No correction

0.10

0.12

0.75

0.80

0.43

0.14

0.14

0.57

0.57

Correction 1

0.02

0.05

0.75

0.81

0.32

0.53

0.52

Correction 2

0.00

0.03

0.62

0.78

0.49

0.49

15–44 years

No correction

0.27

0.33

0.87

0.81

0.82

0.02

0.29

0.67

0.69

Correction 1

0.21

0.30

0.86

0.80

0.79

0.63

0.65

Correction 2

0.19

0.26

0.86

0.78

0.60

0.63

45–54 years

No correction

0.14

0.19

0.89

0.86

0.62

0.20

0.28

0.61

0.66

Correction 1

0.06

0.12

0.88

0.86

0.54

0.57

0.62

Correction 2

0.05

0.11

0.89

0.85

0.54

0.60

55–64 years

No correction

0.12

0.16

0.87

0.86

0.44

0.19

0.25

0.64

0.67

Correction 1

0.05

0.10

0.87

0.87

0.33

0.61

0.64

Correction 2

0.03

0.07

0.87

0.85

0.58

0.61

65–74 years

No correction

0.11

0.14

0.82

0.82

0.32

0.17

0.20

0.62

0.65

Correction 1

0.04

0.08

0.82

0.83

0.19

0.59

0.61

Correction 2

0.01

0.05

0.82

0.81

0.55

0.58

75–99 years

No correction

0.06

0.07

0.55

0.61

0.19

0.07

0.06

0.46

0.45

Correction 1

−0.04

−0.02

0.53

0.63

0.04

0.41

0.40

Correction 2

−0.05

−0.03

0.55

0.57

0.36

0.36

  1. aDetails of the false negative and false positive error rates used in the corrections can be found in Supplementary Table 2.