Is yearly chest x-ray screening helpful in reducing mortality for smokers?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 815-816

  Chek, Kimdary ^a   Tribuna, Joseph ^a   Nashelsky, Joan ^b  

^a Overlook Family Practice Residency   (United States)

^b Family Practice Inquiries Network   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOBACCO SMOKE;

CANCER SCREENING; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOBACCO; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; MASS SCREENING; RADIOGRAPHY;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MASS SCREENING; SMOKING;

EID: 24644450104     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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