title: Lung cancer screening with CT.
abstract: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Non-small cell lung cancer accounts for 75% to 80% of all lung cancers. There is an impetus to find a screening test that can detect non-small cell lung cancer in its early preclinical stages, when surgical resection is most likely to reduce lung cancer mortality. Although earlier randomized controlled trials of lung cancer screening using chest radiography and sputum cytology failed to show reduced lung cancer mortality, CT is a much more sensitive test for detecting small lung nodules, and has generated considerable enthusiasm as a potential contemporary screening tool for lung cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, 924 Westwood Boulevard, Suite 420, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA. daberle@mednet.ucla.edu
authors.forename: Denise R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Aberle
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D008403:Mass Screening; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed