Physician's awareness of lung cancer screening and its related medical radiation exposure in Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Through a survey on perception of lung cancer screening and accompanying medical radiation exposure in Korea, the present study was to investigate its current situations and evaluate various perception of physicians regarding it in order to propose measures for improvements.

Methods

Medical specialists in national cancer screening institutions selected through stratified random sampling were subjected to face-to-face interview using a structured questionnaire. We investigated physicians' perception on effectiveness of lung cancer screening depending on screening modality, selection criteria for subjects of screening, types of equipment used to screen, and perception for seriousness of adverse effects following the test. In addition, odds ratios to underestimate ri

SUBMITTER: Hong S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6060336 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature