TY - JOUR AU - Taghipour, Sharareh AU - Banjevic, Dragan AU - Fernandes, Joanne AU - Miller, Anthony B. AU - Montgomery, Neil AU - Jardine, Andrew K. S. AU - Harvey, Bart J. PY - 2012 DA - 2012/07/19 TI - Predictors of competing mortality to invasive breast cancer incidence in the Canadian National Breast Screening study JO - BMC Cancer SP - 299 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of breast cancer screening requires estimates of the absolute risk of breast cancer, which is modified by various risk factors. Breast cancer incidence, and thus mortality, is altered by the occurrence of competing events. More accurate estimates of competing risks should improve the estimation of absolute risk of breast cancer and benefit from breast cancer screening, leading to more effective preventive, diagnostic, and treatment policies. We have previously described the effect of breast cancer risk factors on breast cancer incidence in the presence of competing risks. In this study, we investigate the association of the same risk factors with mortality as a competing event with breast cancer incidence. SN - 1471-2407 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-12-299 DO - 10.1186/1471-2407-12-299 ID - Taghipour2012 ER -