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Identifying and recruiting healthy control subjects from a managed care organization: a methodology for molecular epidemiological case-control studies of cancer.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology - 1 Aug 1997
Hudmon K S, Honn S E, Jiang H, Chamberlain R M, Xiang W, Ferry G, Gosbee W, Hong W K, Spitz M R
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Case-control studies with stringent matching criteria require large pools of healthy subjects from which to select matched controls. This paper describes a successful method of identifying a large pool of potential control subjects to participate in two molecular epidemiological case-control studies of lung cancer, each enrolling 400 case subjects and 400 control subjects. These studies are not population based,...
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