General thoracic surgeryBalancing curability and unnecessary surgery in the context of computed tomography screening for lung cancer
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CTSNet classification
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Disclosures: David Yankelevitz is a named inventor on several patents and patent applications relating to the evaluation of diseases of the chest including measurement of nodules. Some of these, which are owned by Cornell Research Foundation (CRF), are nonexclusively licensed to General Electric. As an inventor of these patents, Dr Yankelevitz is entitled to a share of any compensation that CRF may receive from its commercialization of these patents. Claudia Henschke is also an inventor of the patents and pending patents owned by CRF. Since April 2009, she has divested herself of all royalties and other interests arising from these. Fred Grannis has provided paid written expert witness and oral deposition testimony in 3 state medical monitoring lawsuits against Philip Morris Corporation between 2007 and the present date. All other authors have nothing to disclose with regard to commercial support.
The I-ELCAP Investigators are listed in Appendix 1.