Lung cancer screening: What is the benefit and what do we do about it?

Lung Cancer

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 247-248

  Mulshine, James L ^a   van Klaveren, Rob J ^b  

^a RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CARET; CPS 2; CT scan; Early detection; Lung cancer; Mortality reduction; Rapid learning system; Screening

Indexed keywords

CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; LUNG CANCER; MORTALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 79851515648     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2010.12.010     Document Type: Editorial

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