Validation of self-reported cancers in the California Teachers Study

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 157, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 539-545

  Parikh Patel, Arti ^a   Allen, Mark ^a   Wright, William E ^b   Anton Culver, Hoda ^c   Bernstein, Leslie ^c   Deapen, Dennis ^c   Horn Ross, Pamela L ^c   Peel, David ^c   Pinder, Rich ^c   Reynolds, Peggy ^c   Ross, Ronald K ^c   West, Dee W ^c   Ziogas, Argyrios ^c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c California Cancer Registry ^*

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Neoplasms; Questionnaires; Recall; Registries

Indexed keywords

CANCER; DISEASE PREVALENCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SELF ASSESSMENT;

AGE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER REGISTRY; CARCINOMA IN SITU; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE; SELF REPORT; SKIN CANCER; TEACHER; THYROID CANCER; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; FACULTY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEER PROGRAM; SOCIAL CLASS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037443801     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwg006     Document Type: Article

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