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Table 2 Proportion of survivors, $l_{x}^{τ}$ , and proportion of survivors after removing breast cancer as a cause of death, $l_{x}^{- b c}$ , by age x and cohort of birth.

From: Competing risks to breast cancer mortality in Catalonia

Ages	Year of Birth
	1920–24			1930–34			1940–44
	$l_{x}^{τ}$	$l_{x}^{- b c}$	Dif.*	$l_{x}^{τ}$	$l_{x}^{- b c}$	Dif.*	$l_{x}^{τ}$	$l_{x}^{- b c}$	Dif.*
20–24	0.7474	0.7474	0	0.8499	0.8499	0	0.8977	0.8977	0
25–29	0.7338	0.7338	0.14	0.8435	0.8435	0.17	0.8953	0.8953	0.17
30–34	0.7229	0.7230	0.83	0.8389	0.8390	0.97	0.8927	0.8928	0.97
35–39	0.7162	0.7165	3.00	0.8346	0.8350	3.56	0.8894	0.8897	3.20
40–44	0.7096	0.7104	7.91	0.8288	0.8297	9.42	0.8854	0.8862	8.20
45–49	0.7017	0.7034	16.45	0.8218	0.8236	17.74	0.8803	0.8821	17.65
50–54	0.6913	0.6941	28.61	0.8129	0.8159	30.16	0.8730	0.8762	32.23
55–59	0.6760	0.6800	39.65	0.8016	0.8064	48.20	0.8620	0.8675	54.90
60–64	0.6574	0.6630	56.01	0.7853	0.7924	70.91	0.8481	0.8557	76.17
65–69	0.6342	0.6414	72.63	0.7634	0.7731	96.93	-	-	-
70–74	0.6001	0.6094	93.00	0.7320	0.7438	117.75	-	-	-
75–79	0.5499	0.5612	112.95	-	-	-	-	-	-
80–84	0.4733	0.4859	125.85	-	-	-	-	-	-
85+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Note: $l_{x}^{- b c}$ can be interpreted as the proportion of women at risk of dying from competing risks at age x.
* Indicates the number of women saved up to age x from an initial cohort of 10,000 women, if breast cancer was removed as a cause of death.

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