CT screening for lung cancer: Implications on social responsibility

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 297-298

  Lee, Christoph I ^a   Forman, Howard P ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CT screening; Lung cancer; Mortality rate; Social responsibility

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LUNG CANCER; MORBIDITY; NOTE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION HAZARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MASS SCREENING; RADIATION INJURIES; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846497905     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.5212     Document Type: Note

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