Starting a new discussion about screening for lung cancer

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 313, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 717-718

  Harris, Russell P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER OVERDIAGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; NORMAL HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84923171663     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.14769     Document Type: Note

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