Population-Based Case-Control Study on Cancer Screening
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Population-based case-control study on cancer screening.
Matched case-control studies have recently been used to evaluate the effectiveness of cancer screening. They enable us to estimate the odds ratios of dying of cancer or of getting invasive cancer. The study compares people with various patterns of screening history with those who were not screened. Criteria for eligible cases, controls, and screening histories that are compared as exposures are...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0091-6765
DOI: 10.2307/3431006