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Trial reportCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2021

Lung cancer screening primer: Key information for primary care providers.

Anna N Wilkinson, Stephen Lam

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Lung cancer screening: where do we stand?Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Anna N WilkinsonAssistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, a family physician with the Ottawa Academic Family Health Team, a general practitioner oncologist at The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, Program Director of PGY-3 FP-Oncology, Chair of the Cancer Care Member Interest Group at the College of Family Physicians of Canada, and Regional Cancer Primary Care Lead for Champlain Region. anwilkinson@toh.ca.
Stephen LamProfessor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, a respirologist at BC Cancer, and Distinguished Scientist Leon Judah Blackmore Chair in Lung Cancer Research and Medical Director of the BC Lung Screening Program at the BC Cancer Research Centre.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo review new evidence reported since the 2016 publication of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care recommendations and to summarize key facets of lung cancer screening to better equip primary care providers (PCPs) in anticipation of wider implementation of the recommendations. QUALITY OF EVIDENCE: A new, large randomized controlled trial has been published since 2016, as have updates from 4 other trials. PubMed was searched for studies published between January 1, 2004, and December 31, 2020, using search words including MAIN MESSAGE: Lung cancers diagnosed at stage 4 have a 5-year survival rate of only 5% and have a disproportionate impact on those with lower socioeconomic status, rural populations, and Indigenous populations. By

conclusionLung cancer screening, with its embedded emphasis on smoking cessation, is an excellent addition to PCPs' preventive health care tools. The implementation of formal and pilot lung cancer screening programs across Canada means that PCPs will be increasingly required to counsel their patients around the uptake of lung cancer screening.

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Early Detection of CancerLung NeoplasmsCanadaHumansOverdiagnosisPrimary Health Care

Identifiers

PMID34772708
PMCPMC8589127

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