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Most patients with NSCLC are diagnosed at a late stage because of lack of symptoms in early-stage disease, resulting in a very low 5-year survival. More than 50% of patients are diagnosed with metastatic disease [1, 2].
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Savvidou, D.I. (2018). Lung Cancer Screening in High-Risk Patients with Low-Dose Helical CT. In: Gouliamos, A., Andreou, J., Kosmidis, P. (eds) Imaging in Clinical Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68873-2_29
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