Does lung cancer screening with chest X-ray improve disease-free survival?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 483-487

  Hunt, Ian ^a   Siva, Mayooran ^a   Southon, Rachel ^b   Treasure, Tom ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evidence based medicine; Lung neoplasms; Mass screening; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG CANCER; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33746689799     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2006.130518     Document Type: Article

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