Cancer mortality |
Time from study enrollment to death after a diagnosis of breast or colorectal cancer among all cohort participants |
Post-diagnosis survival |
Time from diagnosis to death among participants diagnosed with breast or colorectal cancer |
Death due to (breast or colorectal) cancer |
Deaths in which the primary cause listed on the death certificate was the cancer of interest |
Death due to any cause after (breast or colorectal) cancer |
Any death following a diagnosis of breast or colorectal cancer |
Cancer-specific Survival |
Estimated hazard ratio (association) of BMI for cancer-specific death after a diagnosis of (breast or colorectal) cancer (including only deaths due to breast or colorectal cancer) with the time-scale for follow-up beginning at cancer diagnosis |
Overall survival |
Estimated hazard ratio (association) of BMI for with death from any cause after a diagnosis of (breast or colorectal) cancer (including all deaths following a diagnosis of breast or colorectal cancer) with the time-scale for follow-up beginning at diagnosis |
Estimates obtained from a traditional, time-to-first-event Cox Proportional Hazards model |
The Cox model is a commonly-used, semi-parametric survival analysis method which models the incidence or hazard rate, the number of new cases of disease per population at-risk per unit time. If the outcome is death, this is the mortality rate |
T1
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Estimated association of BMI with incident cancer (breast or colorectal cancer) with the time-scale beginning at study enrollment |
T2a
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Estimated association of BMI with cancer-specific death after diagnosis (only deaths due to breast or colorectal cancer) with the time-scale beginning at diagnosis |
T2b
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Estimated association of BMI with all deaths following a diagnosis of breast or colorectal cancer with the time-scale beginning at diagnosis |
T3a
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Estimated association of BMI with cancer-specific death after enrollment (only deaths due to breast or colorectal cancer) with the time-scale beginning at study enrollment |
T3b
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Estimated association of BMI with all deaths following a diagnosis of breast or colorectal cancer with the time-scale beginning at study enrollment |