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Am J Epidemiol 2003; 157:965.
Copyright © 2003 by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Weiss Responds to "Screening as a Nuisance Variable in Cancer Epidemiology"

For Which Aspects of a Study Subject’s Screening History Should We Control?

Noel S. Weiss

From the Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.

Received for publication February 10, 2003; accepted for publication February 15, 2003.

confounding factors (epidemiology); effect modifiers (epidemiology); neoplasms

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Our goal in adjusting for cancer-screening history in nonrandomized studies of cancer etiology is straightforward: to ensure that the groups of persons who do and do not have cancer are comparable with regard to receipt of screening during the period of time the malignancy was . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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