Principles of Screening
This chapter focuses on cancer screening. Screening for cancer provides an alternative approach to cancer control. Cancer screening is defined as the testing of apparently healthy volunteers from the general population for the purpose of separating them into high and low probabilities of having a given cancer. The validity of a screening test, study designs, biases, potential harms of screening, and case studies are discussed.
Keywords: cancer screening, cancer prevention, screening tests, epidemiology, volunteers
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