A pause, progress, and reassessment in lung cancer screening

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 355, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 1822-1824

  Unger, Michael ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750306688     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe068207     Document Type: Editorial

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