# Effectiveness of Lung Cancer Screening by Sex and Tumor Histology: Extended, Pooled Analysis of the ITALUNG and LUSI Trials, with Comparison to Findings in the NLST

**Authors:** Rudolf Kaaks, Francisco Omar Cortés-Ibáñez, Stefan Delorme, Erna Motsch, Verena Katzke, Claus-Peter Heussel, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Giulia Picozzi, Giuseppe Gorini, Francesca Maria Carozzi, Laura Carrozzi, Eugenio Paci, Donella Puliti, Mario Mascalchi

PMC · DOI: 10.34133/cancomm.0011 · Cancer Communications · 2026-02-24

## Full-text entities

- **Genes:** EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) [NCBI Gene 1956] {aka ERBB, ERBB1, ERRP, HER1, NISBD2, NNCIS}, GNPTAB (N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate transferase subunits alpha and beta) [NCBI Gene 79158] {aka GNPTA, ICD}
- **Diseases:** neuroendocrine (MESH:D018358), bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma (MESH:D002282), LUSCs (MESH:D002294), large-cell tumors (MESH:D018287), NSCLC (MESH:D002289), LUADs (MESH:D000077192), Tumor (MESH:D009369), Adenocarcinomas (MESH:D000230), LC (MESH:D008175), Small cell carcinoma (MESH:D018288), of Diseases (MESH:D004194), SCLC (MESH:D055752), mucinous (MESH:D002288), deaths (MESH:D003643)
- **Chemicals:** LDCT (-)
- **Species:** Homo sapiens (human, species) [taxon 9606]

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