Impact of reduced patient life expectancy on potential cancer risks from radiologic imaging

Radiology

Volumn 261, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 193-198

  Brenner, David J ^a   Shuryak, Igor ^a   Einstein, Andrew J ^a  

^a Columbia University Medical Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION;

HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80053082691     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11102452     Document Type: Article

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