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Appendix Table 1. Search Strategy for Screening for Lung Cancer

Search No. Search Terms
1

Exp lung neoplasms or lung cancer.mp (mp = text words from title and abstracts)
bronchogenic carcinoma
pulmonary coin lesions
Pancoast's syndrome
pulmonary blastoma

2

Exp mass screening or screen.mp
genetic screening
mass chest x-ray
multiphasic screening
mandatory testing

3 1 and 2
4

Exp clinical trials or clinical trials.mp
clinical trials, phase 1 through 4
controlled clinical trials
multicenter studies

5 Cohort studies.mp
6

Exp epidemiologic studies or epidemiologic studies.mp
case-control studies
cohort studies
longitudinal studies
followup studies
prospective studies
cross-sectional studies
seroepidemiologic studies

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)

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