Assessment of lead-time bias in estimates of relative survival for breast cancer

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• 作者：Therese M.-L. Andersson^a ; ^{therese.m-l.andersson@ki.se} ; Mark J. Rutherford^b ; Keith Humphreys^a
• 关键词：Lead time ; Relative survival ; Breast cancer ; Mammography screening ; Simulation study
• 刊名：Cancer Epidemiology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：46
• 期：Complete
• 页码：50-56
• 全文大小：257 K
• 卷排序：46

文摘

Lead-time bias on breast cancer RSRs due to screening is likely to be (5%-points). Simulating from a tumour growth model proves useful for evaluating lead-time bias. Absolute and relative bias were larger for 5-year than for 1- and 10-year RSR.