Volume doubling time of lung cancers detected in a chest radiograph mass screening program: Comparison with CT screening

Oncology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 513-516

  Kanashiki, Maki ^a   Tomizawa, Takuji ^a   Yamaguchi, Iwao ^a   Kurishima, Koichi ^a   Hizawa, Nobuyuki ^a   Ishikawa, Hiroichi ^b   Kagohashi, Katsunori ^a   Satoh, Hiroaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Tsukuba Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chest radiograph; Lung cancer; Mass screening program; Volume doubling time

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SIZE; CANCER VOLUME DOUBLING TIME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84863867373     PISSN: 17921074     EISSN: 17921082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ol.2012.780     Document Type: Article

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