Search Results - "Ming, Amy"
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The incidence of fatal breast cancer measures the increased effectiveness of therapy in women participating in mammography screening
Published in Cancer (15-02-2019)“…Background Women and their health care providers need a reliable answer to this important question: If a woman chooses to participate in regular mammography…”
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Effectiveness of fecal immunochemical testing in reducing colorectal cancer mortality from the One Million Taiwanese Screening Program
Published in Cancer (15-09-2015)“…BACKGROUND The effectiveness of fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) in reducing colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality has not yet been fully assessed in a large,…”
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Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on a population‐based breast cancer screening program
Published in Cancer (15-12-2020)“…Not only were social events and public facilities closed temporarily due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic, but health services also were…”
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Swedish Two-County Trial: Impact of Mammographic Screening on Breast Cancer Mortality during 3 Decades
Published in Radiology (01-09-2011)“…To estimate the long-term (29-year) effect of mammographic screening on breast cancer mortality in terms of both relative and absolute effects. This study was…”
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Modeling the overdetection of screen‐identified cancers in population‐based cancer screening with the Coxian phase‐type Markov process
Published in Statistics in medicine (28-02-2020)“…Modeling overdetection resulting from screening often uses the conventional competing risk model. This model assigns screen‐detected cases dying from other…”
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Beneficial Effect of Consecutive Screening Mammography Examinations on Mortality from Breast Cancer: A Prospective Study
Published in Radiology (01-06-2021)“…Background Previously, the risk of death from breast cancer was analyzed for women participating versus those not participating in the last screening…”
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Bayesian measurement‐error‐driven hidden Markov regression model for calibrating the effect of covariates on multistate outcomes: Application to androgenetic alopecia
Published in Statistics in medicine (20-09-2018)“…Multistate Markov regression models used for quantifying the effect size of state‐specific covariates pertaining to the dynamics of multistate outcomes have…”
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Population‐based screening program for reducing oral cancer mortality in 2,334,299 Taiwanese cigarette smokers and/or betel quid chewers
Published in Cancer (01-05-2017)“…BACKGROUND To reduce oral cancer mortality, an organized, population‐based screening program for the early detection of oral premalignancy and oral cancer was…”
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Mammography screening reduces rates of advanced and fatal breast cancers: Results in 549,091 women
Published in Cancer (01-07-2020)“…Background It is of paramount importance to evaluate the impact of participation in organized mammography service screening independently from changes in…”
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Predicting Length of Stay among Patients Discharged from the Emergency Department-Using an Accelerated Failure Time Model
Published in PloS one (20-01-2017)“…Emergency department (ED) crowding continues to be an important health care issue in modern countries. Among the many crucial quality indicators for monitoring…”
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Effectiveness of a 30‐year periodontist’s primary care for 1946 patients during five‐year follow‐up
Published in Oral diseases (01-05-2022)“…Objective To evaluate the effect of the periodontal primary care (PPC) on the improvement of periodontal probing depth based on a periodontist's 30‐year…”
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Time to Colonoscopy and Risk of Colorectal Cancer in Patients With Positive Results From Fecal Immunochemical Tests
Published in Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology (01-06-2019)“…In patients with positive results from a fecal immunochemical test (FIT), failure to receive a timely follow-up colonoscopy may be associated with higher risks…”
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Economic evaluation for mass vaccination against COVID-19
Published in Journal of the Formosan Medical Association (01-06-2021)“…Vaccine is supposed to be the most effective means to prevent COVID-19 as it may not only save lives but also reduce productivity loss due to resuming…”
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Insights from the breast cancer screening trials: how screening affects the natural history of breast cancer and implications for evaluating service screening programs
Published in The breast journal (01-01-2015)“…It is desirable to have a strategy for evaluation of breast cancer service screening programs years before the long-term breast cancer mortality data are…”
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Double‐contrast barium enema is no longer justified as a backup examination for colonoscopy in the population screening program: Population study in an organized fecal immunochemical test‐based screening program
Published in Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology (01-08-2023)“…Background and Aim Currently, some countries still acknowledge double‐contrast barium enema (DCBE) as a backup confirmatory examination when colonoscopy is not…”
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Dental education changed by COVID-19: Student’s perceptions and attitudes
Published in BMC medical education (03-07-2021)“…Abstract Background Dental students have encountered changes in the teaching format amid the SARS CoV-2 pandemic. This study aims to evaluate the attitudes of…”
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Evaluation of abdominal ultrasonography mass screening for hepatocellular carcinoma in Taiwan
Published in Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) (01-05-2014)“…Mass screening with abdominal ultrasonography (AUS) has been suggested as a tool to control adult hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in individuals, but its…”
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Effect of Baseline Breast Density on Breast Cancer Incidence, Stage, Mortality, and Screening Parameters: 25-Year Follow-up of a Swedish Mammographic Screening
Published in Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention (01-05-2010)“…We aimed to quantitatively assess the effect of baseline breast density on the incidence, stage, and mortality, and also the natural course of the disease,…”
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Impact of treatment delay on survival of oral/oropharyngeal cancers: Results of a nationwide screening program
Published in Head & neck (01-02-2021)“…Background To assess the impact of treatment delay on survival of oral/oropharyngeal cancer (OSCC). Methods We followed 5743 OSCCs between 2004 and 2009 from a…”
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Long-term effectiveness of faecal immunochemical test screening for proximal and distal colorectal cancers
Published in Gut (01-12-2021)“…To measure the effects of faecal immunochemical test (FIT) for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening on overall and site-specific long-term effectiveness of…”
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