UK Lung Cancer RCT Pilot Screening Trial: baseline findings from the screening arm provide evidence for the potential implementation of lung cancer screening

BACKGROUND: Lung cancer screening using low-dose CT (LDCT) was shown to reduce lung cancer mortality by 20% in the National Lung Screening Trial. METHODS: The pilot UK Lung Cancer Screening (UKLS) is a randomised controlled trial of LDCT screening for lung cancer versus usual care. A population-base...

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Autores principales: Field, J K, Duffy, S W, Baldwin, D R, Whynes, D K, Devaraj, A, Brain, K E, Eisen, T, Gosney, J, Green, B A, Holemans, J A, Kavanagh, T, Kerr, K M, Ledson, M, Lifford, K J, McRonald, F E, Nair, A, Page, R D, Parmar, M K B, Rassl, D M, Rintoul, R C, Screaton, N J, Wald, N J, Weller, D, Williamson, P R, Yadegarfar, G, Hansell, D M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2016
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Lung Cancer
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4752629/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26645413
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-207140

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