Pedro Nascimento de Lima, PhD

Engineer at RAND Corporation and Professor at Pardee RAND Gradutate School

Robustness of colorectal cancer screening: A Stress test of US colonoscopy screening guidelines

INFORMS Annual Meeting | Phoenix, AZ

This presentation demonstrates how colorectal cancer screening strategies are robust to a wide range of uncertainties, including different model specifications and colonoscopy sensitivity assumptions. The study uses Bayesian inference to quantify uncertainty around adenoma birth-cohort effects and evaluate the robustness of screening recommendations.

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