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- Title
When the Average Applies to No One: Personalized Decision Making About Potential Benefits of Lung Cancer Screening.
- Authors
Bach, Peter B.; Gould, Michael K.
- Abstract
The authors discuss the benefits of lung cancer screening with reference to the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST). They report that the risk for the lung cancer death in the high-risk patients reduced by 20 percent after three rounds of annual medical screening with low-radiation-dose computed tomography (CT) in comparison with chest radiography screening. According to them, people who do not meet the criteria for the NLST, experience the reduced benefit of being screened when risk is low.
- Subjects
LUNG cancer diagnosis; CLINICAL trials; TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL screening; MEDICAL radiography; LOW-level radiation
- Publication
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2012, Vol 157, Issue 8, p571
- ISSN
0003-4819
- Publication type
Opinion
- DOI
10.7326/0003-4819-157-8-201210160-00524