Open AccessLung Cancer Screening With Helical Computed Tomography in Older Adult Smokers
Author(s) -
Parthiv J. Mahadevia,
Lee A. Fleisher,
Kevin D. Frick,
John S. Eng,
Steven N. Goodman,
Neil R. Powe
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
jama
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688
H-Index - 680
eISSN - 1538-3598
pISSN - 0098-7484
DOI - 10.1001/jama.289.3.313
Subject(s) - medicine , overdiagnosis , lung cancer , lung cancer screening , stage (stratigraphy) , cohort , context (archaeology) , cancer , population , quality adjusted life year , cost effectiveness , environmental health , paleontology , risk analysis (engineering) , biology
Encouraged by direct-to-consumer marketing, smokers and their physicians are contemplating lung cancer screening with a promising but unproven imaging procedure, helical computed tomography (CT).
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