Volume doubling time for lung cancer screening
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Avoiding overdiagnosis in lung cancer screening: the volume doubling time strategy.
It has been 2 years since the breakthrough publication of the National Lung Cancer Screening Trial (NLST) results, yet there are still unresolved questions about cancer screening. Despite the possibility of reducing lung cancer-related mortality, the risk of detecting indolent lesions that are not life threatening, especially in advanced-age patients, still exists. Another problem is the number...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0040-6376,1468-3296
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-203448