Does earlier detection of lung cancer on mass screening improve outcome in younger and middle-age patients?

Oncology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1217-1219

  Maeno, Tetsuhiro ^a   Satoh, Hiroaki ^a   Ishikawa, Hiroichi ^a   Yamashita, Yuko T ^a   Kamma, Hiroshi ^a   Ohtsuka, Morio ^a   Hasegawa, Shizuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early detection; Lung cancer; Mass screening; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031877042     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.5.5.1217     Document Type: Article

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