Lung cancer screening: Rationale and background

Cancer Imaging

Volumn 11, Issue SPEC. ISS. A, 2011, Pages

  Diederich, S ^a  

^a MARIEN HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cigarette smoking; Early detection; Lead time bias; Length time bias; Lung cancer; Overdiagnosis bias; Screening

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MARKER;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SMOKING; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG TUMOR; REVIEW;

HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; SMOKING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84866760284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14707330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1102/1470-7330.2011.9019     Document Type: Article

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