Age specific sensitivity and sojourn time in a breast cancer screening programme (DOM) in The Netherlands: a comparison of different methods.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To estimate age dependent sensitivity and sojourn time in a breast cancer screening programme by different methods. POPULATION AND METHODS: The study population comprised women participating in the DOM project--the Utrecht screening programme for the early detection of breast cancer. Breast cancer screening prevalence data and incidence rates after a negative screen were used to estimate age specific sensitivity and mean sojourn time by different methods. MAIN RESULTS: Maximum likelihood estimates of the mean sojourn time varied from one year for women aged 40-49 years to thre... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | TEXT |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 1996 |
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British Medical Journal Publishing Group
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Schlagwörter: | Research Article |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26807158 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/50/1/68 |