A decrease in lung cancer mortality following the introduction of low-dose chest CT screening in Hitachi, Japan

Lung Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 225-228

  Nawa, Takeshi ^a,b   Nakagawa, Tohru ^c   Mizoue, Tetsuya ^d   Kusano, Suzushi ^c   Chonan, Tatsuya ^b,e   Hayashihara, Kenji ^b,f   Suito, Tetsushi ^b,f   Endo, Katsuyuki ^a,b  

^a Hitachi   (Japan)

^b Hitachi Medical Center   (Japan)

^c HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e Nikko Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^f National Hospital Organization Ibaraki Higashi National Hospital The Center of Chest Diseases and Severe Motor Intellectual Disabilities   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chest; Computed tomography; Ecological studies; Lung cancer; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JAPAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84868303253     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: 18728332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2012.09.012     Document Type: Article

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