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Volume doubling time for lung cancer screening
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  1. James M Colclough
  1. Correspondence to James M Colclough, University of Liverpool, School of Medicine, Cedar House—Ashton Street, Room G15, Liverpool, Merseyside L69 3GE, UK; j.colclough{at}liv.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-203448

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    This Italian, retrospective cohort study used data collected during the Continuous Observation of Smoking Subjects (COSMOS) study. The aim was to measure volume doubling time (VDT) of incident lung cancers detected by low-density CT screening over 5 consecutive years as a means of identifying slow-growing cancers that might be overdiagnosed, and to evaluate clinical outcomes …

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