Editorial: Low-dose ct screening for lung cancer: Trial and error?

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 563-564

  Nackaerts, Kris ^a   Vansteenkiste, Johan ^b  

^a Respiratory Oncology Unit (Department of Pulmonology) and Leuven Lung Cancer Group   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL RATE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LUNG TUMOR; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; RADIOGRAPHY;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MASS SCREENING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67651184006     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181a5db40     Document Type: Editorial

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