Contamination during 4 years of annual CT screening in the Danish Lung Cancer Screening Trial (DLCST)

Lung Cancer

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 323-327

  Saghir, Zaigham ^a   Ashraf, Haseem ^a   Dirksen, Asger ^a   Brodersen, John ^b   Pedersen, Jesper Holst ^c  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Contamination; Danish Lung Cancer Screening Trial (DLCST); Lung cancer; Lung neoplasms; Mass screening; Over diagnosis; Randomised controlled trial; Screening effect; Statistical power

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SMOKING; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CONTROL GROUPS; DENMARK; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESEARCH DESIGN; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 79851512602     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2010.06.006     Document Type: Article

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