Implementing lung cancer screening: baseline results from a community-based 'Lung Health Check' pilot in deprived areas of Manchester.
Aged
Community Health Services
/ methods
Early Detection of Cancer
/ methods
England
/ epidemiology
Female
Health Services Accessibility
Humans
Lung Neoplasms
/ diagnostic imaging
Male
Mass Screening
/ methods
Middle Aged
Mobile Health Units
Pilot Projects
Poverty Areas
Prevalence
Smoking
/ adverse effects
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
lung cancer
Journal
Thorax
ISSN: 1468-3296
Titre abrégé: Thorax
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0417353
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
04 2019
04 2019
Historique:
received:
05
12
2017
revised:
15
01
2018
accepted:
22
01
2018
pubmed:
15
2
2018
medline:
31
8
2019
entrez:
15
2
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We report baseline results of a community-based, targeted, low-dose CT (LDCT) lung cancer screening pilot in deprived areas of Manchester. Ever smokers, aged 55-74 years, were invited to 'lung health checks' (LHCs) next to local shopping centres, with immediate access to LDCT for those at high risk (6-year risk ≥1.51%, PLCO
Identifiants
pubmed: 29440588
pii: thoraxjnl-2017-211377
doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2017-211377
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
405-409Informations de copyright
© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2019. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Competing interests: None declared.