A case-control study of lung cancer screening in Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Lung Cancer

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 325-332

  Nishii, Kenji ^a   Ueoka, Hiroshi ^b   Kiura, Katsuyuki ^b   Kodani, Tsuyoshi ^a   Tabata, Masahiro ^b   Shibayama, Takuo ^b   Gemba, Kenichi ^a   Kitajima, Takushi ^b   Hiraki, Akio ^b   Kawaraya, Masashi ^a   Nakayama, Tomio ^c   Harada, Mine ^a  

^a Okayama Southern Institute of Health   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Case control study; Chest X ray examination; Lung cancer mortality; Lung cancer screening; Odds ratio; Sputum cytology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; JAPAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SMOKING; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CYTOLOGY; LUNG TUMOR; MASS SCREENING; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SPUTUM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGE; ODDS RATIO; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RISK FACTORS; SPUTUM; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0034760074     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5002(01)00270-7     Document Type: Article

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