Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Annual chest radiographs do not reduce lung cancer deaths

 The latest issue of the Journal of American Medical Association contains a detailed study which demonstrated that  annual screening with chest radiograph did not reduce lung cancer mortality compared with usual care.
You can access the paper at
http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/306/17/1865.abstract?etoc

It will be very useful to read the editorial on the topic in the same issue of the journal. It can be accessed at:

http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/306/17/1916.full

Any  medical x-ray procedure which does not benefit the patient must be considered as unwanted