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Principal Investigator
Name
Martin Tammemagi
Degrees
DVM; MSc; PhD
Institution
Henry Ford Health System
Position Title
Professor of Epidemiology
Email
About this CDAS Project
Study
NLST (Learn more about this study)
Project ID
201110-0019
Initial CDAS Request Approval
Oct 25, 2011
Title
Relative Survival (excess mortality) of individuals diagnosed with lung cancer in the National Lung Screening Trial.
Summary
The general aim of this study is to evaluate the relative survival of individuals diagnosed with lung cancer, corrected for the effect of other causes of death by utilizing patients’ expected “survival” given National age-, sex-, race/ethnicity-, and year-specific mortality rates.