Five year survival rates can mislead

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 346, Issue 7893, 2013, Pages

  Gigerenzer, Gerd ^a,b   Wegwarth, Odette ^a,b,c  

^a Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c Harding Centre for Risk Literacy   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAMMOGRAPHY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NOTE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873378996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f548     Document Type: Note

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