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Length/time bias

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Screening tests selectively find slowly-developing cases which have a long presymptomatic phase. For example, fast-growing tumours will be missed by screening and have a worse prognosis. Survival will be better in cases detected by screening without there necessarily being a real difference between the survival of screened and unscreened populations.

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