Lung Cancer Screening with Spiral CT.

Lung cancer screening with spiral CT: toward a working strategy.

Given that there is no validated test for early lung cancer detection, the current standard approach to lung cancer detection is to wait for signs or symptoms to develop. In that setting, newly detected lung cancer is generally rapidly fatal resulting in over 157,000 deaths annually. Sole dependence on tobacco control is an insufficient public health response to lung cancer, since most newly di...

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...