A Randomized Study of Lung Cancer Screening with Spiral Computed Tomography

Infante, Maurizio; Cavuto, Silvio; Fabio Lutman, Romano; Brambilla, Giorgio; Chiesa, Giuseppe; Luca Ceresoli, Giovanni; Passera, Eliseo; Angeli, Enzo; Chiarenza, Maurizio; Aranzulla, Giuseppe; Cariboni, Umberto; Errico, Valentina; Inzirillo, Francesco; Bottoni, Edoardo; Voulaz, Emanuele; Alloisio, Marco; Destro, Annarita; Roncalli, Massimo; Santoro, Armando; Ravasi, G

doi:10.1164/rccm.200901-0076oc

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A Randomized Study of Lung Cancer Screening with Spiral Computed Tomography

Published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine • Jun 11, 2009

Authors:

Maurizio Infante

Silvio Cavuto

Romano Fabio Lutman

Abstract

RATIONALE: Screening for lung cancer with modern imaging technology may decrease lung cancer mortality, but encouraging results have only been obtained in uncontrolled studies. OBJECTIVES: To explore the effect of screening with low-dose spiral computed tomography (LDCT) on lung cancer mortality. Se...

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Medicine

Lung cancer screening

Lung cancer

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