Exposure to low dose computed tomography for lung cancer screening and risk of cancer: Secondary analysis of trial data and risk-benefit analysis

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 356, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Rampinelli, Cristiano ^a   De Marco, Paolo ^b   Origgi, Daniela ^a   Maisonneuve, Patrick ^a   Casiraghi, Monica ^a   Veronesi, Giulia ^a,c   Spaggiari, Lorenzo ^a,b   Bellomi, Massimo ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; LUNG CANCER; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SMOKING; ADVERSE EFFECTS; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85012257334     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j347     Document Type: Article

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