Lung cancer screening has the potential to save lives, but shall we do it?

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 141, Issue APRIL, 2011, Pages

  Russi, Erich W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Early detection; Low dose chest CT; Lung cancer mortality; Lung cancer screening

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING CESSATION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC BIOPSY; TREATMENT PLANNING; AGED; ARTICLE; LUNG TUMOR; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955849996     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2011.13185     Document Type: Review

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