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Breast Cancer
Breast cancer screening sensitivity increased with patient age
December 22nd, 2005
Scientists suggested breast cancer screening sensitivity increased with patient age. According to recent research from the United States, "This study investigates statistical approaches to quantitatively describing the age effect on screening sensitivity and sojourn time distribution in breast cancer screening studies. Such an investigation is directly motivated by the need to understand the inherent relationships between age and these important quantities." "We incorporate the age effect through generalized linear models under a progressive disease modeling framework and obtain the corresponding parameter estimators using the maximum likelihood...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-12-22)
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