Variation in lung cancer outcomes in the UK and Europe

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 110-111

  Woolhouse, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENT; CHEMOTHERAPY; COMORBIDITY; EDITORIAL; EUROPE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SURGERY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SURVIVAL; UNITED KINGDOM; CANCER STAGING; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; FEMALE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; EUROPE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 79958082068     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: 14734893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.11-2-110     Document Type: Editorial

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