Computed tomography screening for lung cancer: Prospects of surviving competing causes of death

Clinical Lung Cancer

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 323-325

  Henschke, Claudia I ^a,b   Yip, Rowena ^a   Yankelevitz, David F ^a   Miettinen, Olli S ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

National death index; Pack years; Smokers; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; BIOPSY; COMORBIDITY; INCIDENCE; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SMOKING; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; BIOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33744979039     PISSN: 15257304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3816/CLC.2006.n.013     Document Type: Article

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