| 1 | Exp lung neoplasms or lung cancer.mp (mp = text words from title and abstracts) |
| 2 | Exp mass screening or screen.mp |
| 3 | 1 and 2 |
| 4 | Exp clinical trials or clinical trials.mp |
| 5 | Cohort studies.mp |
| 6 | Exp epidemiologic studies or epidemiologic studies.mp |
| 7 | Review$.mp |
| 8 | 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 |
| 9 | 3 and 8 |
| 10 | Limit 9 to human |
| 11 | Limit 10 to English (foreign-language articles that had English abstracts were included) |