Benefits and harms in the National Lung Screening Trial: expected outcomes with a modern management protocol.
Benefits and harms in the National Lung Screening Trial: expected outcomes with a modern management protocol.
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国家肺部筛查试验的好处和危害:现代管理方案的预期结果。
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10.1016/s2213-2600(19)30136-5
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2019
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Johansson,Mattias
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Robbins,HilaryA;Callister,Matthew;Sasieni,Peter;Quaife,SamanthaL;Cheung,LiC;Brennan,Paul;Katki,HormuzdA;Berg,ChristineD;Baldwin,David;Johansson,Mattias
Lung cancer screening is receiving increasing attention worldwide, both in the medical community and the general public. Multiple randomised trials—including the US National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), the Multicentric Italian Lung Detection trial, and preliminary results from the Dutch-Belgian NELSON trial—have provided definitive evidence that low-dose CT screening can reduce lung cancer mortality.However, any screening programme is associated with both benefits and harms, and accurately communicating these to patients and the general public is a complex challenge. In the USA, despite a national recommendation from the US Preventive Services Task Force, uptake of lung screening among eligible people (aged 55–80 years, at least 30 pack-years smoked, and no more than 15 quityears) is low. In the UK and throughout Europe, there has been debate in the research community about whether, when, and how screening should be implemented. Most recently, England’s National Health Service announced a planned rollout of low-dose CT screening at ten sites. This prompted disagreement from commentators concerned about the harms of screening and ultimately to a discussion on the BBC television programme, Newsnight. Given the complexity of the debate, it is difficult for primary care providers to understand and explain the benefits and harms of screening to their patients. Multiple graphical tools have been developed and published to aid this conversation, each based on the NLST, and other bespoke graphics have been used in pilot studies. However, some of the published graphics can be misleading, and all represent outcomes based on the NLST protocol, which is now nearly 20 years old. Current protocols in the USA (Lung-RADS version 1.0) and the UK (British Thoracic Society) differ from the NLST protocol in important ways. In particular, they categorise many small pulmonary nodules as negative screens, which can substantially reduce the number of false-positives and the subsequent need for additional scans and invasive procedures. We engaged an international group of lung screening experts with the goal of assembling and providing accurate and balanced information on the benefits and harms of NLST-like low-dose CT screening. To reflect contemporary practice, we analysed individual-level data from the NLST to represent outcomes that would have been observed if Lung-RADS had been used to manage low-dose CT findings. The NLST low-dose CT arm comprised 26722 participants who were offered three annual screens, then followed for approximately 4 additional years. The Lung-RADS classification of NLST screens was done retrospectively and has been described previously. We defined Lung-RADS