%0 Journal Article
%T Coronary artery calcification in lung cancer screening
%A James G. Ravenel
%A John W. Nance
%J SCIE-indexed Journal
%D 2018
%X Lung cancer screening has been shown in the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) to result in a statistically significant decrease in lung cancer specific mortality (1). In addition to the lung cancer specific mortality reduction, there was a statistically significant 7% reduction in all-cause mortality. As the entirety cannot be explained simply by lung cancer mortality reduction, it is conceivable that the detection of abnormalities incidentally detected during a screening CT might be playing a role
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