Four years experience of the survey on quality control of lung cancer screening system in Japan

Lung Cancer

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 291-294

  Sagawa, Motoyasu ^a   Endo, Chiaki ^b   Sato, Masami ^c   Saito, Yasuki ^d   Sobue, Tomotaka ^e   Usuda, Katsuo ^a   Aikawa, Hirokazu ^a   Fujimura, Shigefumi ^b   Sakuma, Tsutomu ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Miyagi Cancer Center   (Japan)

^d SENDAI CITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Lung cancer; Quality assurance; Quality control; Screening; Survey

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CLASSIFICATION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; JAPAN; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

HUMANS; JAPAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MASS SCREENING; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 58049209294     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2008.05.012     Document Type: Article

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