Mathematical Biology Seminar
Friday, November 15, 2019, 1:30pm, 235 Physics
Marc D. Ryser
Cancer overdiagnosis – a discourse on population health, biologic mechanism and statistics

Abstract:

In this talk we discuss the issue of cancer overdiagnosis and overtreatment as a multi-scale problem at the interface of cancer biology, population health and patient preferences. We highlight recent parallel developments in the fields of cancer biology and population-based estimation of overdiagnosis, and we argue that effective approaches to the problem of overdiagnosis and overtreatment requires approaches that integrate evidence from different spatio-temporal scales.

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