Medicare approves coverage for lung cancer screening: The case for symptomatic screening

JAMA Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1027-1028

  Verma, Vivek ^a   Beriwal, Sushil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGE; AGED; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84965090624     PISSN: 23742437     EISSN: 23742445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2015.2165     Document Type: Short Survey

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