The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Thoracic: Lung CancerResults of low-dose computed tomography as a regular health examination among Chinese hospital employees
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The methods, results, and implications of this study. We analyzed the results of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) as a regular health examination in 8392 of 15,686 employees from 6 hospitals in different regions of China. We found LDCT detected lung cancer in a significant proportion of young, female, and nonsmoking employees. The vast majority of these lung cancers were early stage with an extremely good prognosis. There are challenges and opportunities for better understanding and management of this disease.
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This study was supported by the Chinese Minister of Science and Technology grant (No.2016YFC0902302), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81772466 and 81702258), Shanghai Shenkang Hospital Development Center City Hospital Emerging Cutting-edge Technology Joint Research Project (SHDC12017102), and Shanghai Municipal Health Commission Key Discipline Project (2017ZZ02025 and 2017ZZ01019).
Drs Zhang, Jheon, Li, Zhang, Xie, Qian, and Lin contributed equally to this work.