Lung cancer detection by canine scent: Will there be a lab in the lab?

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 511-512

  McCulloch, M ^a   Turner, K ^b   Broffman, M ^a  

^a Pine Street Foundation ^*  (United States)

^b EZ Train   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; BREATH ANALYSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOG; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXPIRED AIR; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SAFETY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; ODORS; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA;

EID: 84860343199     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00215511     Document Type: Editorial

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