Table 3.

Ten-year cause-specific survival corrected for misclassification of cause of death.

Age group	Correction applieda	Lung		Prostate	Breast	Ovary	Oesophagus		Colorectal
		Men	Women	Men	Women	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women
15–99 years	No correction	0.10	0.12	0.75	0.80	0.43	0.14	0.14	0.57	0.57
	Correction 1	0.02	0.05	0.75	0.81	0.32	–	–	0.53	0.52
	Correction 2	0.00	0.03	0.62	0.78	–	–	–	0.49	0.49
15–44 years	No correction	0.27	0.33	0.87	0.81	0.82	0.02	0.29	0.67	0.69
	Correction 1	0.21	0.30	0.86	0.80	0.79	–	–	0.63	0.65
	Correction 2	0.19	0.26	0.86	0.78	–	–	–	0.60	0.63
45–54 years	No correction	0.14	0.19	0.89	0.86	0.62	0.20	0.28	0.61	0.66
	Correction 1	0.06	0.12	0.88	0.86	0.54	–	–	0.57	0.62
	Correction 2	0.05	0.11	0.89	0.85	–	–	–	0.54	0.60
55–64 years	No correction	0.12	0.16	0.87	0.86	0.44	0.19	0.25	0.64	0.67
	Correction 1	0.05	0.10	0.87	0.87	0.33	–	–	0.61	0.64
	Correction 2	0.03	0.07	0.87	0.85	–	–	–	0.58	0.61
65–74 years	No correction	0.11	0.14	0.82	0.82	0.32	0.17	0.20	0.62	0.65
	Correction 1	0.04	0.08	0.82	0.83	0.19	–	–	0.59	0.61
	Correction 2	0.01	0.05	0.82	0.81	–	–	–	0.55	0.58
75–99 years	No correction	0.06	0.07	0.55	0.61	0.19	0.07	0.06	0.46	0.45
	Correction 1	−0.04	−0.02	0.53	0.63	0.04	–	–	0.41	0.40
	Correction 2	−0.05	−0.03	0.55	0.57	–	–	–	0.36	0.36

^aDetails of the false negative and false positive error rates used in the corrections can be found in Supplementary Table 2.