Selecting the best candidates for lung cancer screening

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 898-900

  Caverly, Tanner ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; CONTRAINDICATIONS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PATIENT EDUCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

DECISION MAKING; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84930720277     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.1235     Document Type: Editorial

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