Am J Epidemiol 2004; 159:620.
Copyright © 2004 by the Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
RE: "POPULATION- AND COMMUNITY-BASED RECRUITMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICANS AND LATINOS: THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LUNG CANCER STUDY"
1 Department of Epidemiology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263
2 Derald H. Ruttenberg Cancer Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029
3 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
4 Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029
5 Arkansas Cancer Research Center, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205
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The recent Journal paper by Cabral et al. (1) addresses an epidemiologic issue of paramount importance in the conduct of case-control studies. With falling rates of participation in research, determination of a proper control group, as well as approaches to encouraging full participation by all those who are eligible, will greatly impact the future utility of such studies.
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