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ArticleF1000 medicine reports2010

The potential for using risk models in future lung cancer screening trials.

John K Field, Olaide Y Raji

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Article in F1000 medicine reports, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  7. Identifying patients with suspected lung cancer in primary care: derivation and validation of an algorithm.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2011
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

John K FieldRoy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, School of Cancer Studies, University of Liverpool Cancer Research Centre 200 London Road, Liverpool, L3 9TA UK.
Olaide Y Raji

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Computed tomography screening for early diagnosis of lung cancer is one of the more potentially useful strategies, aside from smoking cessation programmes, for reducing mortality and improving the current poor survival from this disease. The long-term success of lung cancer screening will be dependent upon identifying populations at sufficient risk in order to maximise the benefit-to-harm ratio of the intervention. Risk prediction models could potentially play a major role in the selection of high-risk individuals who would benefit most from screening intervention programmes for the early detection of lung cancer. Improvements of developed lung cancer risk prediction models (through incorporation of objective clinical factors and genetic and molecular biomarkers for precise and accurate estimation of risks), demonstration of their clinical usefulness in decision making, and their use in future screening programmes are the focus of current research.

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PMCPMC2950056

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