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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Lung Cancer. 2019 May 16;134:16–24. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2019.05.016

Figure 1. Diagram depicting the competing events for patients diagnosed with lung cancer.

Figure 1

In this context, deaths due to lung cancer are considered the events of interest and non-lung cancer deaths are considered competing events. Misclassification can occur when deaths due to lung cancer are misclassified as non-lung cancer deaths, leading to under-reporting of lung cancer deaths (a), or when non-lung cancer deaths are misclassified as lung cancer deaths, leading to over-reporting of lung cancer deaths (b).