Figure 7

Decision curve for survival time data with and without adjustment for competing risk, where the incidence of competing risks is low (prostate cancer data set). The thick grey line is the net benefit for a strategy of treating all men with (dashed line) and without (solid line) adjustment for competing risk; the thin black line is the net benefit of a strategy of treating men according to the model with (dashed line) and without (solid line) adjustment for competing risk; the thick black line is the net benefit of treating no men. Since the incidence of competing risk is low, the curves for treating all are essentially overlapping and appear as a single grey line.