Task force urges CT lung cancer screening for people at high risk.

Autor: McCarthy, Michael
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Zdroj: BMJ: British Medical Journal; 1/11/2014, Vol. 348 Issue 7940, p4-5, 2p, 1 Color Photograph
Abstrakt: The article reports on the claim by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force as of January 2014 that smokers and former smokers aged 55-80 should be screened yearly with low dose computed tomography. The recommendations were published in the December 31, 2013 issue of the journal "Annals of Internal Medicine." It claims that 85% of lung cancer cases diagnosed in the U.S. is due to smoking.
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