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Quality lung cancer screening protects quality of life: No harm, no foul
Author(s) -
Ostroff Jamie S.
Publication year - 2014
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.28835
Subject(s) - medicine , national lung screening trial , lung cancer screening , context (archaeology) , quality of life (healthcare) , lung cancer , anxiety , harm , cancer , spiral computed tomography , lung , intensive care medicine , computed tomography , radiology , psychiatry , nursing , paleontology , biology , law , political science
This ancillary paper from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) dataset examines the impact of undergoing low‐dose spiral computed tomography (LDCT) for early detection of lung cancer on health related quality of life and state anxiety assessed at 1 and 6 months following lung screening. Outcomes are compared by screening results. Overall, the findings provide reassurance that undergoing lung cancer screening in the context of a well‐designed screening and follow‐up protocol poses little or no psychological harm or quality of life impairment to screening participants.