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Cumulative Incidence of False-Positive Results in Repeated, Multimodal Cancer Screening

Jennifer Miller Croswell, Barnett S. Kramer, Aimee R. Kreimer, Phil C. Prorok, Jian-Lun Xu, Stuart G. Baker, Richard Fagerstrom, Thomas L. Riley, Jonathan D. Clapp, Christine D. Berg, John K. Gohagan, Gerald L. Andriole, David Chia, Timothy R. Church, E. David Crawford, Mona N. Fouad, Edward P. Gelmann, Lois Lamerato, Douglas J. Reding and Robert E. Schoen
The Annals of Family Medicine May 2009, 7 (3) 212-222; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.942
Jennifer Miller Croswell
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Barnett S. Kramer
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vol. 7 no. 3 212-222
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.942
PubMed 
19433838

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The Annals of Family Medicine
Print ISSN 
1544-1709
Online ISSN 
1544-1717
History 
  • Received for publication April 30, 2008
  • Revision received August 15, 2008
  • Accepted for publication August 20, 2008
  • Published online May 11, 2009.

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  1. Jennifer Miller Croswell, MD*,
  2. Barnett S. Kramer, MD, MPH*,
  3. Aimee R. Kreimer, PhD,
  4. Phil C. Prorok, PhD,
  5. Jian-Lun Xu, PhD,
  6. Stuart G. Baker, ScD,
  7. Richard Fagerstrom, PhD,
  8. Thomas L. Riley,
  9. Jonathan D. Clapp,
  10. Christine D. Berg, MD,
  11. John K. Gohagan, PhD,
  12. Gerald L. Andriole, MD,
  13. David Chia, PhD,
  14. Timothy R. Church, PhD,
  15. E. David Crawford, MD,
  16. Mona N. Fouad, MD, MPH,
  17. Edward P. Gelmann, MD,
  18. Lois Lamerato, PhD, MS,
  19. Douglas J. Reding, MD, MPH and
  20. Robert E. Schoen, MD, MPH
  1. National Institutes of Health, Office of the Director, Office of Disease Prevention, Bethesda, Maryland (Croswell, Kramer); National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Prevention, Bethesda, Maryland (Kreimer, Xu, Baker, Fagerstrom, Berg, Gohagan); IMS, Incorporated, Washington, DC (Riley, Clapp); Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (Andriole); UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California (Chia); University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Church); University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, Colorado (Crawford); University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama (Fouad); Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University, New York, New York (Gelmann); Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan (Lamerato); Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, Wisconsin (Reding); University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Schoen).
  1. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Jennifer M. Croswell, MD, Office of the Director, Office of Disease Prevention, National Institutes of Health, 6100 Executive Blvd, Suite 2B-03, Bethesda, MD 20892, croswellj{at}od.nih.gov
  1. Portions of this work were presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Chicago, Illinois, in June 2007 (Abstract # 1503).

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