Population estimates of survival in women with screen-detected and symptomatic breast cancer taking account of lead time and length bias

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 179-185

  Lawrence, Gill ^a   Wallis, Matthew ^b   Allgood, Prue ^c   Nagtegaal, Iris D ^d   Warwick, Jane ^c   Cafferty, Fay H ^c   Houssami, Nehmat ^e   Kearins, Olive ^a   Tappenden, Nancy ^a   O'Sullivan, Emma ^a   Duffy, Stephen W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lead time bias; Length bias; Mammography; Population screening; Self selection bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TIME;

AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

EID: 67649424705     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-008-0100-8     Document Type: Article

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