Trial radiation risks in lung cancer screening programs;A comparison with nuclear industry workers and atomic bomb survivors

Chest

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 618-624

  McCunney, Robert J ^a   Li, Jessica ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; SMOKING; ATOMIC BOMB; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIOMETRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; LONG TERM ADVERSE EFFECTS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROCEDURES; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES; LONG TERM ADVERSE EFFECTS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

EID: 84896740875     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.13-1420     Document Type: Article

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