Sedghi Gamechi, Zahra http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9185-0091
Bons, Lidia R.
Giordano, Marco
Bos, Daniel
Budde, Ricardo P. J.
Kofoed, Klaus F.
Pedersen, Jesper Holst
Roos-Hesselink, Jolien W.
de Bruijne, Marleen
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science Research and Technology
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Hartstichting (2013T093)
Danish Ministry of Interior and Health
Article History
Received: 13 June 2018
Revised: 8 November 2018
Accepted: 29 November 2018
First Online: 23 January 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Marleen de Bruijne.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise.No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: Some study subjects or cohorts have been previously reported in some papers about lung cancer, for example, Pedersen JH, Ashraf H, Dirksen A et al. The Danish randomized lung cancer CT screening trial--overall design and results of the prevalence round. J Thorac Oncol. 2009 May;4(5):608–14.
: • Retrospective. (Data collection is performed prospectively; analysis took place in a retrospective manner by using the data of the lung cancer screening cohort later in time.)• Performed at one institution