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Impact on mortality and cancer incidence rates of using random invitation from population registers for recruitment to trials

Burnell, Matthew, Gentry-Maharaj, Aleksandra, Ryan, Andy, Apostolidou, Sophia, Habib, Mariam, Kalsi, Jatinderpal, Skates, Steven, Parmar, Mahesh, Seif, Mourad W, Amso, Nazar Najib ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8646-6623, Godfrey, Keith, Oram, David, Herod, Jonathan, Williamson, Karin, Jenkins, Howard, Mould, Tim, Woolas, Robert, Murdoch, John, Dobbs, Stephen, Leeson, Simon, Cruickshank, Derek, Campbell, Stuart, Fallowfield, Lesley, Jacobs, Ian and Menon, Usha 2011. Impact on mortality and cancer incidence rates of using random invitation from population registers for recruitment to trials. Trials 12 , 61. 10.1186/1745-6215-12-61

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Abstract

Background Participants in trials evaluating preventive interventions such as screening are on average healthier than the general population. To decrease this 'healthy volunteer effect' (HVE) women were randomly invited from population registers to participate in the United Kingdom Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS) and not allowed to self refer. This report assesses the extent of the HVE still prevalent in UKCTOCS and considers how certain shortfalls in mortality and incidence can be related to differences in socioeconomic status. Methods Between 2001 and 2005, 202 638 postmenopausal women joined the trial out of 1 243 312 women randomly invited from local health authority registers. The cohort was flagged for deaths and cancer registrations and mean follow up at censoring was 5.55 years for mortality, and 2.58 years for cancer incidence. Overall and cause-specific Standardised Mortality Ratios (SMRs) and Standardised Incidence Ratios (SIRs) were calculated based on national mortality (2005) and cancer incidence (2006) statistics. The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD 2007) was used to assess the link between socioeconomic status and mortality/cancer incidence, and differences between the invited and recruited populations. Results The SMR for all trial participants was 37%. By subgroup, the SMRs were higher for: younger age groups, extremes of BMI distribution and with each increasing year in trial. There was a clear trend between lower socioeconomic status and increased mortality but less pronounced with incidence. While the invited population had higher mean IMD scores (more deprived) than the national average, those who joined the trial were less deprived. Conclusions Recruitment to screening trials through invitation from population registers does not prevent a pronounced HVE on mortality. The impact on cancer incidence is much smaller. Similar shortfalls can be expected in other screening RCTs and it maybe prudent to use the various mortality and incidence rates presented as guides for calculating event rates and power in RCTs involving women.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Subjects: R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer)
Additional Information: Trial Registration This study is registered as an International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial, number ISRCTN22488978. Medical Research Council (grant no. G990102), Cancer Research UK (grant no. C1479/A2884) and Department of Health
Publisher: BioMed Central
ISSN: 1745-6215
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 30 March 2016
Last Modified: 06 May 2023 00:09
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/28795

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