CT screening for lung cancer brings forward early disease. The randomised Danish Lung Cancer Screening Trial: status after five annual screening rounds with low-dose CT
ThoraxPublished 27 January 2012Open access
Zaigham Saghir, Asger Dirksen, Haseem Ashraf, Karen Skjøldstrup Bach, John Brodersen, Paul Frost Clementsen
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CT screening for lung cancer brings forward early disease, and at this point no stage shift or reduction in mortality was observed, indicating some degree of over diagnosis and need for longer follow-up.
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CT screening for lung cancer brings forward early disease, and at this point no stage shift or reduction in mortality was observed. More lung cancers were diagnosed in the screening group, indicating some degree of overdiagnosis and need for longer follow-up.
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