Screening för lungcancer - Helt nya möjligheter med nya metoder!

Translated title of the contribution: Screening for lung cancer - new prospects using new methods!

Gunnar Hillerdal, Claudia Henschke, Shusuke Sone

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Abstract

Screening for lung cancer has been regarded as unwarranted for many years. With new techniques, this is no longer the case. Screening with low dose CT scanning has been used in Japan and New York, among many places, for a number of years. We here describe some results. New lung cancers were found in 0.6 per cent of all participants in both studies at the yearly repeat scan. The tumors have been very small, almost all in Stage I, and survival is very good. Thus, the results are promising, and trials in Sweden will hopefully begin before long.

Translated title of the contributionScreening for lung cancer - new prospects using new methods!
Original languageSwedish
Pages (from-to)2047-2051
Number of pages5
JournalLakartidningen
Volume98
Issue number17
StatePublished - 2001
Externally publishedYes

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