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Andrew Vickers

@VickersBiostats
Biostatistician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Special interest in prostate cancer, risk prediction, patient-reported outcomes, decision-making.
New York
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Joined February 2020
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    Andrew Vickers
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    Testosterone therapy in men on active surveillance for prostate cancer is not associated with increased risk of disease progression
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    TESTOSTERONE THERAPY IN MEN ON ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE FOR PROSTATE CANCER IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH...
    Purpose:Testosterone therapy (TTH) in men with prostate cancer (PC) remains controversial, with limited data on cancer specific outcomes for patients on TTH available, particularly for those on...
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    Andrew Vickers
    @VickersBiostats
    Aug 25
    Can anyone at AMA please explain to be the rationale of insisting on two significant figures for high p values but one significant figure for lower p values? The 4 in p=0.34 tells us nothing; truncating the 4 so p=0.034 is changed to 0.03 is losing information.
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    Andrew Vickers
    @VickersBiostats
    Aug 22
    On the left, Robin meets his hero, Jimmy Mickle, at frisbee summer camp, 2018. On the right, Robin and Jimmy after Robin's team, San Francisco Revolver, defeats Jimmy's (New York Pony) in the World Ultimate Club Championship final.
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    Andrew Vickers
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    Aug 12
    Almost all high-income countries have a national policy recommending shared decision-making before PSA screening. We show: a) this recommendation never justified by evidence; b) best evidence is PSA screening not a preference-sensitive decision.
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    Should there be informed decision-making for prostate cancer screening? An analysis of preference...
    From journals.sagepub.com
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    Andrew Vickers
    @VickersBiostats
    Aug 10
    Generally assumed population-based PSA screening = increased overdiagnosis. But already lots of PSA testing going on. In a modeling study, we show organized screening would reduce PSA tests, overdiagnosis compared to current disorganized approach
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    Effect of Implementing Population‐Based Prostate‐Specific Antigen Screening on Testing Rates and...
    From onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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