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Purpose of this study was to determine the rate of contamination, defined as lung cancer screening in the control arm, of the Dutch–Belgian randomized lung cancer screening trial (NELSON) as contamination adversely affects the power of a trial. The NELSON cohort includes 15,822 high-risk current and former smokers, aged 50–75 years, equally randomized to the screen and control arm. Questionnaires...