Case-control Studies on the Effectiveness of Breast Cancer Screening: Insights from the UK Age Trial

Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 590-596

  Van Der Waal, Daniëlle ^a   Broeders, Mireille J M ^a,b   Verbeek, André L M ^a   Duffy, Stephen W ^c   Moss, Sue M ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Reference Centre for Screening   (Netherlands)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SELECTION BIAS; SELF SELECTION BIAS; UNITED KINGDOM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ODDS RATIO; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 84942779063     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000285     Document Type: Article

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