Lung cancer: CT screening for lung cancer - Do we have an answer?

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 672-673

  Pastorino, Ugo ^a   Sverzellati, Nicola ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; LUNG SURGERY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING HABIT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84889573289     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2013.198     Document Type: Article

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