Refining Lung Cancer Screening Criteria in the Era of Value-Based Medicine

Steven D Shapiro

PLOS Medicine, 2017, vol. 14, issue 2, 1-2

Abstract: In a Perspective on the Research Article by ten Haaf and colleagues, Steven Shapiro discusses the challenges of identifying screening strategies that maximize the number of cancers diagnosed, while minimizing the harms of overdiagnosis and maintaining cost-effectiveness.

Date: 2017
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