Lung cancer screening in people who have never smoked: lessons from East Asia
H. Gilbert Welch, Wayne Gao, Fatima G. Wilder, So Yeon Kim, Gerard A. Silvestri
Abstract
<b>Wayne Gao and colleagues</b> argue that high detection rates and high survival rates in never smokers are less likely to be evidence of screening benefit and more likely to be evidence of its harm—overdiagnosis
Topics & Concepts
OverdiagnosisHarmMedicineLung cancerLung cancer screeningFamily medicineEnvironmental healthPathologyPsychologySocial psychologyLung Cancer Diagnosis and TreatmentLung Cancer Treatments and MutationsEsophageal Cancer Research and Treatment