Tag: Marvin Zelen

  • Campus & Community

    HSPH’s Marvin Zelen dies at 87

    Professor Marvin Zelen of the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) died on Nov. 15 after a battle with cancer. He was 87. Zelen was known for developing the statistical methods and study designs that are used in clinical cancer trials.

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  • Health

    How often should women get mammograms?

    With screening guidelines and financial coverage varying among health systems and insurers – sometimes dramatically – a new mathematical model provides quantitative predictions of the mortality benefits, on average, in populations of women over the course of 40 years. “We’re not advocating any particular interval for mammography screening,” says Sandra Lee, a biostatistician at Dana-Farber…

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