Lung Cancer Screening (PDQ®)–Health Professional Version

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Changes to This Summary (02/02/2018)

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Description of the Evidence

Updated statistics with estimated new cases and deaths for 2018 (cited American Cancer Society as reference 1).

Revised text to state that other randomized clinical trials of low-dose helical computed tomography are under way or are already completed in a number of countries; other small trials are largely not powered to assess mortality as an endpoint, but there is an effort under way to combine the findings from these studies with the Dutch-Belgian Randomized Lung Cancer Screening Trial data, once the data are fully mature (cited Horeweg et al., Paci et al., Wille et al., Infante et al., and Pastorino et al. as references 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, respectively).

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