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Screening and Surveillance Bias in Cancer

Surveillance bias arises when differences in the frequency of a condition are due to changes in the modality of detection rather than to a difference in the actual risk of the condition. This bias hampers the surveillance of scrutiny-dependent cancers, leading to misinterpretations of cancer trends,...

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Autores principales: Tancredi, Stefano, Cullati, Stéphane, Chiolero, Arnaud
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10123698/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37092457
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/epidemiologia4020012
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Sumario:Surveillance bias arises when differences in the frequency of a condition are due to changes in the modality of detection rather than to a difference in the actual risk of the condition. This bias hampers the surveillance of scrutiny-dependent cancers, leading to misinterpretations of cancer trends, risk factor identification, and, consequently, to the wrong public health actions.