Chest X-ray screening for lung cancer: Overdiagnosis, endpoints, and randomized population trials

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 294-300

  Strauss, Gary M ^a,b   Dominioni, Lorenzo ^c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

chest X ray screening; mortality; overdiagnosis; randomized population trials; survival

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR GROWTH;

CHEST X-RAY SCREENING; MORTALITY; OVERDIAGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED POPULATION TRIALS; SURVIVAL;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84884910140     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.23396     Document Type: Review

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