Perilous potential: The chance to save lives, or lose them, through low dose computed tomography screening for lung cancer

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 287-288

  Bach, Peter B ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NOTE; ONCOLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84884905181     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.23389     Document Type: Note

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