Important Questions About Lung Cancer Screening Programs When Incidental Findings Exceed Lung Cancer Nodules by 40 to 1

Affiliations

¹ Editor, JAMA Internal Medicine2Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
² Deputy Editor, JAMA Internal Medicine4Division of General Internal Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland.

Comment

Rita F Redberg et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2017.

. 2017 Mar 1;177(3):311-312.

doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.9446.

¹ Editor, JAMA Internal Medicine2Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
² Deputy Editor, JAMA Internal Medicine4Division of General Internal Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland.

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