Applying the National Lung Screening Trial eligibility criteria to the US population: What percent of the population and of incident lung cancers would be covered?

Journal of Medical Screening

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 154-156

  Pinsky, Paul F ^a   Berg, Christine D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LUNG TUMOR; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; SEER PROGRAM; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84868100889     PISSN: 09691413     EISSN: 14755793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jms.2012.012010     Document Type: Article

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