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New use of prescription drugs prior to a cancer diagnosis

PURPOSE: Cancers often have considerable induction periods. This confers a risk of reverse causation bias in studies of cancer risk associated with drug use, as early symptoms of a yet undiagnosed cancer might lead to drug treatment in the period leading up to the diagnosis. This bias can be allevia...

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Autores principales: Pottegård, Anton, Hallas, Jesper
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5299521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27889931
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pds.4145