Mammography screening for women under age 50

Ismail Jatoi, Pranjali V. Gadgil

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Resumen

Survival refers to the period of time from cancer diagnosis to death. Lead-time bias refers to the interval between diagnosis of cancer by screening and usual clinical detection. Leadtime bias may make it appear that screening prolongs survival, when, in fact, it simply extends the period of time over which the disease is observed. As screening advances the time of breast cancer diagnosis, patients with screen-detected cancers will inevitably have better survival rates than those with clinically detected cancers, even if screening does nothing to delay the time of death. Thus, retrospective studies comparing survival between screened and unscreened populations fail to account for lead-time bias, and are flawed.

Idioma originalEnglish (US)
Título de la publicación alojadaEarly Breast Cancer
Subtítulo de la publicación alojadaFrom Screening to Multidisciplinary Management, Third Edition
EditorialCRC Press
Páginas87-93
Número de páginas7
ISBN (versión digital)9781841848860
ISBN (versión impresa)9781841848853
DOI
EstadoPublished - ene 1 2013

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Medicine

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