Should we use total mortality rather than cancer specific mortality to judge cancer screening programmes? Yes/No

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 343, Issue 7830, 2011, Pages

  Penston, James ^a   Steele, Robert ^b,d   Brewster, David ^c  

^a SCUNTHORPE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Scottish Bowel Screening Programme   (United Kingdom)

^c Scottish Cancer Registry   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MORTALITY; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 84859002328     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d6395     Document Type: Short Survey

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