Cancer, concepts, cohorts and complexity: Avoiding oversimplification of overdiagnosis

Thorax

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 842-845

  Detterbeck, Frank C ^a  

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Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE CONCEPTS; LUNG CANCER; METASTASIS; NOTE; OVERDIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 84865298750     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-201779     Document Type: Article

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