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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Mar 2.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol. 2020 Jan 6;64:101653. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2019.101653

B.1 Patients who had surgery and a documented recurrence (n = 1108) were classified as events of both types at the date of recurrence.

B.2 Patients who had surgery and were found to be DF and remain DF until end of study (n = 12,126)

Vital status Cause of Death 1 - Recurrence status 1 – Censor/Event Date 2 – Death or Recurrence 2 – Censor/Event Date Number of patients
Alive Not applicable No event AFU date No event AFU date 10,714
Died Non-cancer related No event Death or AFU date, whichever occurred first Event Death date 1,184
Died Cancer-related No event* Last DF date Event** Death date 228
*

Determined by abstractor call for recurrence (DF) but does not assume until end of study due to cancer death (censor at last known DF).

**

Count as an event at death date for composite endpoint of death or recurrence. Better to possibly inflate the time to death or recurrence than censor these known events (death) as non-events at the last DF date. This would clearly overestimate recurrence-free survival.