Deprivation, distance and death in lung cancer

Thorax

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 108-109

  Peake, Michael D ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTANCE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED KINGDOM; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HOSPITAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THORAX SURGERY;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PNEUMONECTOMY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; SOCIAL CLASS; THORACIC SURGERY;

EID: 84921329025     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2014-206153     Document Type: Editorial

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