Talk:Lung cancer screening

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Japan
User:Fgrannis - working in Wikipedia is really, really different than writing a paper in normal science.

Here in Wikipedia, what you write has to summarize the source. You cannot write what you know, and put a citation that provides an example of it. That is not OK here. It is very hard for scientists to switch gears when coming to Wikipedia. But it is necessary.

The content below is not supported by the sources provided, and the sources are old, primary sources. The sources that we summarize here are secondary (like literature reviews or book chapters) or tertiary (like textbooks). And we just summarize them. The idea is not hard, but it is hard for scientists to adjust sometimes/

Japan is the only nation where there is a large experience with population lung cancer screening. National laws mandate access to yearly chest roentgenograms in the workplace, and screening programs are also available in schools and regional health clinics. Data on over 3 million patients screened since 1987, under the Health and Medical Services Law, has been carefully examined by the Japanese National Lung Cancer Screening Research Group and published in a number of papers. A number of recent studies from Japan have offered strong suggestive evidence that radiographic screening increases lung cancer 5-year survival in patients detected in mass screening programs (32-56%) versus patients symptom-detected patients (11.3-25%).
 * Experience with population lung cancer screening in Japan

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Planned/incoming edits by medical students to this page - work plan
Article chosen: Lung Cancer Screening

Why this one: It is a very important public health issue that can help to prevent a lot of morbidity and mortality.

Initial Analysis of the article:

The article isn’t organized in order of most pertinent to least. It would be more logical to have the Guidelines for screening be at the top

Overall organization, what changes:

Move the guidelines below the background and rename the History section to a title that accurately reflects the content in that section.

What will you add?:

More about the actual history of lung cancer screening

What will you remove?:

Outdated image captions; redundancy in the background and risks section

What will you augment?:

Recent history of lung cancer screening from the time the article was last updated (latests posts from the talk page are from January 2017)

What will you decrease coverage of?:

Outdated history/research content

Peer Review: - The structure of the article is very clear and logical. The introduction does a good job of providing relevant information such as the efficacy/prevalence of lung cancer screening. It could be worthwhile to include a sentence about different modalities of such screening. The language is clear and not repetitive. -The history and development of guidelines sections are good but could probably be combined as they both use chronological review of lung cancer screening to explore its evolution.