[Effect of preventive fluorographic mass screening on the prognosis of lung cancer and tuberculosis].
A survey of mass X-ray examinations of the thoracic cavity carried out in Leningrad in 1983-1991 showed the number of screenees to drop from 3.2 to 2.1 mln per year within the last three years (1988-1990). This finding is matched by an increased number of patients with primary lung cancer, a decrease in the numbers of cases of radical surgical treatment and those with lung tuberculosis identified by X-ray, and a steady increase in tuberculosis mortality.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004813:Epidemiology / Q000639:trends; D005260:Female; D005453:Fluorescence; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D008297:Male; D008400:Mass Chest X-Ray / Q000379:methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality
Vliianie profilakticheskikh fliuorograficheskikh obsledovaniĭ naseleniia na prognoz raka i tuberkulëza lëgkikh.