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A different interpretation of the efficacy of lung cancer screening in the PLCO trial

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  1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Daigaku, Uchinada, Ishikawa, 920-0293, Japan

    Motoyasu Sagawa

  2. Department of Cancer Control and Statistics, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan

    Tomio Nakayama

  3. Division of Environmental Medicine and Population Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Japan

    Tomotaka Sobue

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The JECS Study Group—Japanese randomized trial for evaluating the efficacy of low-dose thoracic CT screening for lung cancer in never or light smokers, PI: Motoyasu Sagawa, MD.

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Sagawa, M., Nakayama, T., Sobue, T. et al. A different interpretation of the efficacy of lung cancer screening in the PLCO trial. Eur J Epidemiol 31, 211–212 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-015-0070-1

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