Tumour doubling times and the length bias in breast cancer screening programmes

Screening for early detection of breast cancer is considered to be an important element of preventive medicine. In this paper, we use numerical simulations to examine the length bias in regular interval screening programmes, by computing the doubling times of breast cancer tumours detected through r...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Health care management science 2011-06, Vol.14 (2), p.203-211
Hauptverfasser:	Vieira, Israel T., de Senna, Valter, Harper, Paul R., Shahani, Arjan K.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Age Aged Bias Breast cancer Breast Neoplasms - diagnosis Breast Neoplasms - pathology Business and Management Computer Simulation Disease Progression Early Detection of Cancer - statistics & numerical data Econometrics Female Health Administration Health Informatics Healthcare modelling Humans Length bias Lung cancer Mammography Mammography - statistics & numerical data Management Medical prognosis Medical screening Middle Aged Monte Carlo simulation Mortality Operations Research/Decision Theory Preventive medicine Sensitivity analysis Simulation Studies Time Factors Trends Tumors Tumour doubling times United Kingdom Womens health
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