Estimating overdiagnosis of lung cancer

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 158, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 635-

  Young, Robert P ^a   Hopkins, Raewyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; RADIOGRAPHY;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84876370211     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-158-8-201304160-00013     Document Type: Letter

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