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Does this correlation still hold if you look at men below a certain age? Since prostate cancer increases with age then you could get a bias towards the more hea
by danieltillett 6y ago
Does this correlation still hold if you look at men below a certain age? Since prostate cancer increases with age then you could get a bias towards the more healthy as the non-prostate cancer peers die earlier of some others cause.
- vharuck 6y agoI can't answer that until tomorrow (vacation). We try to reduce bias from competing causes of death by using the Pohar Perme method [0]. Though I now wonder if there is a larger difference for prostate cancer than other cancer types. It's commonly believed by cancer researchers that, if they autopsied everyone, they would find a prostate tumor in most men over 65. [0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01640.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011...