Sagawa Motoyasu, Saito Yasuki, Sato Masami, Sugita Makoto, Endo Chiaki, Takahashi Satomi, Usuda Katsuo, Sakurada Akira, Kondo Takashi, Sakuma Tsutomu
Dept. of Thoracic Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Daigaku, Uchinada, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.
Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2002 Nov;29(11):1894-9.
Although the purpose of cancer screening is to decrease the number of cancer deaths, the efficacy of some cancer screening programs has not been proved. This article describes the authorized method for the lung cancer screening system in Japan, and introduces papers reporting the efficacy of lung cancer screening. The problems in the present lung cancer screening system in Japan are also discussed.
