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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Aberle DR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4307918 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Clinics in chest medicine 20080301 1
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Non-small cell lung cancer accounts for 75% to 80% of all lung cancers. There is an impetus to find a screening test that can detect non-small cell lung cancer in its early preclinical stages, when surgical resection is most likely to reduce lung cancer mortality. Although earlier randomized controlled trials of lung cancer screening using chest radiography and sputum cytology failed to show reduced lung cancer mortality, CT ...[more]