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Jan 20, 2019

Health-related quality of life and anxiety in the PAN-CAN lung cancer screening cohort

BMJ open
Niloofar Taghizadeh, Alain Tremblay, Sonya Cressman, Stuart Peacock, Annette M McWilliams, Paul MacEachern, Michael R Johnston, John Goffin, Glen Goss, Garth Nicholas, Simon Martel, Francis Laberge, Rick Bhatia, Geoffrey Liu, Heidi Schmidt, Sukhinder Atkar-Khattra, Ming-Sound Tsao, Martin C Tammemagi, Stephen C Lam, Pan-Canadian Early Lung Cancer Study Group
CONCLUSIONS: CT screening for lung cancer has no major overall impact on HRQoL among participants, although a minority of participants (number-needed-to-harm=7 after baseline screening and 18 at 1 year) demonstrated clinically significant increased anxiety levels.
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