Pneumonologia i alergologia polska
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Pneumonol Alergol Pol · Jan 2012
Biography Historical Article[Doctor Wiktoria Maria Werkenthin--the prisoner of Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp number 64514].
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Pneumonol Alergol Pol · Jan 2011
Review[The need of lung cancer screening: new evidence, new expectations].
Lung cancer is the most common cancer in Poland and in the world and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths. In the past 30 years lung cancer survival has not been improved. In the same period of time significant progress has been made in the results of treatment of many other cancers for example: breast, colorectal and prostate cancer. ⋯ The major breakthrough is the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), randomized trial conducted in USA, that demonstrated 20% mortality reduction in low-dose computed tomography group comparing to radiography group. Several randomized trials are ongoing in Europe. Researchers continue to seek new methods of screening such as autofluorescence bronchoscopy, advanced techniques of sputum analysis and techniques of molecular biology.