Cancer Risk Factors
New cancer risk factors findings from University of Oslo, Department of Biostatistics described
Published in Cancer Weekly, February 24th, 2009
New investigation results, 'Recall bias in melanoma risk factors and measurement error effects: a nested case-control study within the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study,' are detailed in a study published in American Journal of Epidemiology. "Case-control studies of melanoma have the potential for recall bias after much public information about the relation with ultraviolet radiation. Recall bias has been investigated in few studies and only for some risk factors," scientists writing in the American Journal of Epidemiology report.
"A nested case-control study of recall bias was conducted in 2004 within the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study: 208 melanoma...
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