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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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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-101236982023-04-25 Screening and Surveillance Bias in Cancer Tancredi, Stefano Cullati, Stéphane Chiolero, Arnaud Epidemiologia (Basel) Opinion 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. MDPI 2023-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10123698/ /pubmed/37092457 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/epidemiologia4020012 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10123698/
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