Screening for lung cancer - A review

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Kuzniar, Tomasz J ^a,d   Masters, Gregory A ^b   Ray, Daniel W ^c  

^a Evanston Northwestern Healthcare ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Lung cancer; Screening

Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; REVIEW; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MASS SCREENING; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SPUTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1242263322     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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