Lung cancer screening, radiation, risks, benefits, and uncertainty

JAMA

Volumn 307, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 2434-2435

  O'Connor, George T ^a   Hatabu, Hiroto ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LUNG CANCER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING HABIT; FEMALE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MORTALITY; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

FEMALE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84862249587     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2012.6096     Document Type: Editorial

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