Delay between the initial symptoms, the diagnosis and the onset of specific treatment in elderly patients with lung cancer

Clinical Lung Cancer

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 363-368

  Giroux Leprieur, Etienne ^a,b   Labrune, Sylvie ^a,b   Giraud, Violaine ^a,b   Gendry, Thierry ^a,b   Cobarzan, Daniel ^a,b   Chinet, Thierry ^a,b  

^a HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Diagnostic delay; Elderly; Lung cancer; Symptoms; Treatment delay

Indexed keywords

ADENOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; SYMPTOM; THERAPY DELAY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, LARGE CELL; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84865499675     PISSN: 15257304     EISSN: 19380690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cllc.2011.11.010     Document Type: Article

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