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William C. Black

Researcher at Dartmouth College

Publications -  58
Citations -  17795

William C. Black is an academic researcher from Dartmouth College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Lung cancer. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 57 publications receiving 15195 citations. Previous affiliations of William C. Black include Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center.

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Reduced lung-cancer mortality with low-dose computed tomographic screening.

TL;DR: Screening with the use of low-dose CT reduces mortality from lung cancer, as compared with the radiography group, and the rate of death from any cause was reduced.
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Overdiagnosis in Cancer

TL;DR: The two prerequisites for cancer overdiagnosis to occur are described: the existence of a silent disease reservoir and activities leading to its detection (particularly cancer screening), and the magnitude of over diagnosis from randomized trials.
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The Role of Numeracy in Understanding the Benefit of Screening Mammography

TL;DR: The goal was to understand how numeracy affects women's ability to gauge the benefit of mammography after receiving quantitative information, and to hypothesized that the ability to use quantitative risk information would be related to the level of numeracy.
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The national lung screening trial: Overview and study design

Constantine A. Gatsonis, +1336 more
- 01 Jan 2011 - 
TL;DR: The National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) is a randomized multicenter study comparing low-dose helical computed tomography with chest radiography in the screening of older current and former heavy smokers for early detection of lung cancer.
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Results of Initial Low-Dose Computed Tomographic Screening for Lung Cancer

TL;DR: The NLST initial screening results are consistent with the existing literature on screening by means of low-dose CT and chest radiography, suggesting that a reduction in mortality from lung cancer is achievable at U.S. screening centers that have staff experienced in chest CT.