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Major determinants of that large variation are the age of women screened, and the durations of screening and follow-up.
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One other issue in design is the duration of screening.
(ii) The frequency and optimal duration of screening need to be studied.
Analysis identified duration of screening sensitivity as a key variable that may be unavailable from clinical trials.
One-way sensitivity analysis indicated that duration of screening sensitivity and rescreen interval impact AD-FYs the most.
The duration of screening varied from 5 to 20 years and the duration of follow-up varied from 5 to 30 years.
Of note, the longer duration of screening with MRI in the US strategy considerably increases screening costs and false-positive screens relative to the Dutch and UK strategies, which reduces the cost-effectiveness of screening.
The estimated mortality reduction in the screening program is similar to the PSE estimates because the long-duration of screening (5 annual or 3 biennial screenings followed by 3 5 years hiatus followed by 5 annual or 3 biennial screenings) in the trial approximated the 21 years of periodic screening.
Furthermore, the estimates are not in general comparable, because they depend on both the duration of screening and duration of follow-up.
Estimates depend on both the duration of screening and the follow-up period, and are therefore not generally comparable.
We found no papers commenting that overdiagnosis adjusted for model-based lead time depends on both the duration of screening and the duration of follow-up after screening, and only one paper actually estimating the life-time risk (Falk et al, 2013).
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