thesis
Lung cancer screening in the NELSON trial: balancing harms and benefits
- Publication date
- 25 November 2014
- Publisher
- __Abstract__
In this thesis, the harms and benefits of lung cancer screening using low-dose computed tomography were investigated. Data of the Dutch-Belgian NELSON trial were used to quantify its harms and benefits and develop strategies to improve the balance between them. If the NELSON trial demonstrates that low-dose CT screening is an effective method to reduce mortality from lung