Annual or biennial lung cancer CT screening?

CT screening for lung cancer.

Recommendations against screening for lung cancer were based on the lack of a reduction in mortality of the screened group as compared with the control group in randomized control trials. These results were interpreted as showing that early detection of lung cancer as a result of screening did not decrease the mortality rate compared with detection after presentation of symptoms for the populat...

CT screening for lung cancer

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CT screening for lung cancer.

CT screening for lung cancer.

To the Editor: The survival data from the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program (I-ELCAP) study of computed tomographic (CT) screening for lung cancer, as reported by Henschke et al. (Oct. 26 issue), are misleading.1 These estimates of survival are potentially confounded by lead-time and overdiagnosis biases of unknown magnitude and therefore defy meaningful interpretation. Although th...

CT screening for lung cancer brings forward early disease. The randomised Danish Lung Cancer Screening Trial: status after five annual screening rounds with low-dose CT.

BACKGROUND The effects of low-dose CT screening on disease stage shift, mortality and overdiagnosis are unclear. Lung cancer findings and mortality rates are reported at the end of screening in the Danish Lung Cancer Screening Trial. METHODS 4104 men and women, healthy heavy smokers/former smokers were randomised to five annual low-dose CT screenings or no screening. Two experienced chest rad...