Who should follow up lung cancer patients after operation?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1696-1700

  Gilbert, Sébastien ^a   Reid, Kenneth R ^a   Lam, Miu Y ^a   Petsikas, Dimitri ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX SURGERY;

ADULT; AFTERCARE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; ONTARIO; PATIENT CARE TEAM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033932183     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)01145-0     Document Type: Article

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