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Articles matching the ‘lung cancer’ Category

Podcast 156: Using low-dose CT screening for lung cancer in defined populations — a conversation with Peter Bach

Joe Elia • May 20th, 2012

Categories: Audio, CT screening, lung cancer, screening, Uncategorized

(8 votes, average: 2.13 out of 5)

Dr. Peter Bach is the first author on a new JAMA analysis of the benefits and harms of using low-dose CT screening  for lung cancer. The American College of Chest Physicians and the American Society of Clinical Oncology requested the systematic review to assist them in drawing up a clinical guideline. Join us in [...]

Podcast 108: CT screening for lung cancer

Joe Elia • November 9th, 2010

Categories: Audio, CT screening, lung cancer, screening, Uncategorized

(5 votes, average: 4.20 out of 5)

We talk with Dr. Denise Aberle, a principal investigator on the CT-for-lung-cancer-screening trial that the National Cancer Institute stopped last week. NCI stopped the trial when the trial’s monitoring committee found a 20% decrease in lung cancer deaths among those randomized to CT screening. Listen in for a fascinating look at what happens when [...]