Estimating Net Survival using a Life-Table Approach

Cancer registries are often interested in estimating net survival (NS), the probability of survival if the cancer under study is the only possible cause of death. Pohar Perme, Stare, and Estéve (2012, Biometrics 68: 113–120) proposed a new estimator of NS based on inverse probability weighting. They demonstrated that existing estimators of NS based on relative survival were biased, whereas the new estimator was unbiased. The new estimator was...