Benefits and Challenges of Lung Cancer Screening in Older Adults

Lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography has been shown to significantly reduce lung cancer–related mortality in high-risk patients. However, patients diagnosed with lung cancer are typically older and often have multiple age- and smoking-related comorbidities. As a result, cancer scr...

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Veröffentlicht in:Clinical therapeutics 2018-04, Vol.40 (4), p.526-534
Hauptverfasser: Fabrikant, Meytal S., Wisnivesky, Juan P., Marron, Thomas, Taioli, Emanuela, Veluswamy, Rajwanth R.
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