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Is 20% of a loaf enough?
Author(s) -
Kessler Larry
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.27811
Subject(s) - medicine , cancer screening , population , lung cancer , cancer , variety (cybernetics) , family medicine , intensive care medicine , environmental health , pathology , artificial intelligence , computer science
As a result of recent successful studies on lung cancer screening, it was learned that approximately 12,000 deaths can be averted if screening is implemented among the entire screening‐eligible population. A variety of considerations make this finding important, although it is not clear that clinicians are ready for a policy change concerning cancer screening.