Example sentences for: overdiagnosis

How can you use “overdiagnosis” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But with further follow-up the number of cancers in the control group eventually equaled the number in the screened group, which would not have occurred if there were substantial overdiagnosis.

  • One problem is that t catch-up does not occur if there is overdiagnosis.

  • Length-bias and overdiagnosis bias are avoided because the comparison is between randomized groups not between screen-detected and clinically detected cancer cases.

  • To avoid different rates of overdiagnosis between comparison groups, PSE compares population cancer mortality rates in two hypothetical scenarios involving full compliance: Scenario , periodic screening from age a until age b and Scenario , no periodic screening from age a to age b -1 followed by screening at age b . Scenario involves either detection on the first screen at age a or detection in the interval or on subsequent screens to age b . Scenario involves either detection in the absence of screening from ages a to b - 1 or detection on a first screen at age b.

  • A screen-detected stage I cancer is likely to have a different prognosis than a clinically detected stage I cancer due to lead-time, length, and overdiagnosis biases.


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