Cargando…

A note on the catch-up time method for estimating lead or sojourn time in prostate cancer screening

Models of cancer screening assume that cancers are detectable by screening before being diagnosed clinically through symptoms. The duration of this preclinical phase is called sojourn time, and it determines how much diagnosis might be advanced in time by the screening test (lead time). In the catch...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Draisma, Gerrit, Rosmalen, Joost
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2013
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3752966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23364954
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sim.5750