Estimating the frequency of indolent breast cancer in screening trials.

Volume: 28, Issue: 4, Pages: 1261 - 1271
Published: Apr 1, 2019
Abstract
Cancer screening can detect cancer that would not have been detected in a patient's lifetime without screening. Standard methods for analyzing screening data do not explicitly account for the possibility that a fraction of tumors may remain latent indefinitely. We extend these methods by representing cancers as a mixture of those that progress to symptoms (progressive) and those that remain latent (indolent). Given sensitivity of the screening...
Paper Details
Title
Estimating the frequency of indolent breast cancer in screening trials.
Published Date
Apr 1, 2019
Volume
28
Issue
4
Pages
1261 - 1271
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