Does lung cancer screening with low-dose CT remain promising despite disappointing DANTE results? [3]

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 182, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 720-721

  Verones, Giulia ^a   Maisonneuve, Patrick ^a   De Pas, T M ^a   Bellomi, Massimo ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGED; LUNG TUMOR; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 77957697683     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.182.5.720     Document Type: Letter

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