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- 2018
Coordinated strategies for early detection of lung cancerAbstract: Early detection of lung cancer is a fundamental priority and there are hints that lung cancer screening with low-dose CT screening can save lives. The European Union (position statement) recommends a risk stratification approach to be used for future lung cancer low-dose CT programs, suggesting that individuals who enter screening programs should be provided with information on the benefits and harms of screening and smoking cessation should be offered to current smokers; that management of detected solid nodules should use semi-automatically measured volume and volume-doubling time; that a lung nodule management pathway should be established and incorporated into clinical practice; that non-calcified baseline lung nodules greater than 300 mm3, and new nodules greater than 200 mm3, should be managed in inter-disciplinary teams (1)
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