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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(11):899; doi:10.1093/jnci/djk204
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press.

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Response: Re: Extended Lung Cancer Incidence Follow-up in the Mayo Lung Project and Overdiagnosis

Pamela M. Marcus, Ann Harris, Kenneth P. Offord

Affiliations of authors: Biometry Research Group, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD (PMM); Survey Research Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (AH, KPO)

Correspondence to: Pamela M. Marcus, PhD, Biometry Research Group, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, 6130 Executive Blvd, Ste 3131, Bethesda, MD 20895-7354 (e-mail: pm145q@nih.gov).

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We thank Morabia and Markowitz for their comments concerning our extended lung cancer incidence follow-up of the Mayo Lung Project cohort. They posit that oversurveillance, rather than overdiagnosis, explains the excess of lung cancer cases diagnosed among intervention arm participants.

Because the correspondence does not explicitly define the term oversurveillance, we interpret it to mean . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Re: Extended Lung Cancer Incidence Follow-up in the Mayo Lung Project and Overdiagnosis
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