Reply to Wilson: Improving Lung Cancer Screening Uptake

Reply to the Letter to the Editor Reply to Ismail . Sleeve lobectomy for lung cancer

1. T he first sleeve lobectomy for a bronchogenic carcinoma was done in 1952 and not 1954 as mentioned by Allison [2—4]. 2. It was mentioned that bone scanning was performed in symptomatic patients or in patients with abnormal blood work which may lead to many missed metastatic bone lesions. 3. T hey discussed that surgicopathologic staging was performed according to the New International Stagi...

ImprovIng lung cancer survIval

Barriers to uptake among high-risk individuals declining participation in lung cancer screening: a mixed methods analysis of the UK Lung Cancer Screening (UKLS) trial

OBJECTIVE The current study aimed to identify the barriers to participation among high-risk individuals in the UK Lung Cancer Screening (UKLS) pilot trial. SETTING The UKLS pilot trial is a randomised controlled trial of low-dose CT (LDCT) screening that has recruited high-risk people using a population approach in the Cambridge and Liverpool areas. PARTICIPANTS High-risk individuals aged 5...

Reply to Lung Cancer Risk from Rn in Chinese Study

[Screening for lung cancer].

The authors give an overview about the novel results and shifting paradigm of lung cancer screening. They also summarize the results of previous and most recent clinical trials, which re-directed the international interest on lung cancer screening.