Quantitative methods for the evaluation of cancer screening /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London : New York :
Arnold ; Oxford,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction and brief history of cancer screening evaluation techniques
- Important influences on effectiveness and costs to be considered in the evaluation of cancer screening
- Contamination and non-compliance in screening trials
- Evaluating periodic cancer screening without a randomized control group : a simplified design and analysis
- Markov chain models of breast tumour progression and its arrest by screening
- Metastases at diagnosis : a key to understanding the natural history of breast cancer
- Use of an illness-death model to predict the effects of different breast screening intervals
- Screening evaluation and monitoring : some practical considerations
- Use of routine data to monitor and evaluate cervical screening
- Interpretation of the effect of population screening using routine incidence and mortality data
- Optimal use of Pap smear screening for cervical cancer
- Population-based breast cancer screening programmes : estimates of sensitivity, over-diagnosis and early prediction of the benefit
- Assessment of a colorectal cancer screening programme taking account of the natural history of the disease
- Screening for neuroblastoma in children : insight gained from the modelling of various screening strategies