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1
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What is meant by ‘lead-time bias’?

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The length of time between the detection of a disease and its usual clinical presentation and diagnosis

2
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What is meant by ‘length-time bias’?

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The apparent increase in survival due to the tendency to selectively detect slowly growing cancers at screening examinations instead of typical cancers

3
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Define ‘survival’

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Measures the average time from diagnosis to death, not the number of deaths. Example: how long someone will live after being diagnosed with breast cancer is their survival

4
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Define ‘mortality’

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Measures the number of deaths in a given population. Example: mortality is when in 1,000 women of 50-54 ages, the number of women who will die from breast cancer each year

5
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How can you avoid length-time and lead-time bias in cancer screening results?

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By using mortality from the cancer in question as an end-point instead of survival

6
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Describe the screening programme for breast cancer

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2 view mammography every 3 years women aged 50-69

7
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Describe the screening programme for cervical cancer

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Cervical smear every 3-5 years for women aged 25-64

8
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Describe the screening programme for colorectal cancer

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Faecal occult blood examination every 2 years for those aged 50-69

9
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What’s the biggest risk factor for breast cancer?

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Age