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

Thorax

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 296-301

  Saghir, Zaigham ^a   Dirksen, Asger ^a   Ashraf, Haseem ^b   Bach, Karen Skjøldstrup ^a   Brodersen, John ^c   Clementsen, Paul Frost ^a   Døssing, Martin ^d   Hansen, Hanne ^e   Kofoed, Klaus Fuglsang ^f   Larsen, Klaus Richter ^e   Mortensen, Jann ^f   Rasmussen, Jakob Fraes ^c   Seersholm, Niels ^a   Skov, Birgit Guldhammer ^e   Thorsen, Hanne ^c   Tønnesen, Philip ^a   Pedersen, Jesper Holst ^f  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d Department of Internal Medicine   (Denmark)

^e BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^f Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SMOKING;

EID: 84858796991     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200736     Document Type: Article

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