Lung cancer screening in people who have never smoked: lessons from East Asia
<b>Wayne Gao and colleagues</b> argue that high detection rates and high survival rates in never smokers are less likely to be evidence of screening benefit and more likely to be evidence of its harm—overdiagnosis
Authors
- Wayne Gao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6083-5849)
- So Yeon Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4102-5880)
- Gerard A. Silvestri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8464-2187)
- H. Gilbert Welch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3448-1207)
- Fatima G. Wilder
Institutions
- Boston University (US)
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Medical University of South Carolina (US)
- Seoul National University Hospital (KR)
- Taipei Medical University (TW)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMJ
- Published
- 2025-02-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-081674
- Citations
- 8
- Primary Topic
- Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 12.15