Quantification of growth patterns of screen-detected lung cancers: The NELSON study

Lung Cancer

Volumn 108, Issue , 2017, Pages 48-54

  Heuvelmans, Marjolein A ^a,b   Vliegenthart, Rozemarijn ^a   de Koning, Harry J ^c   Groen, Harry J M ^a   van Putten, Michel J A M ^b,d   Yousaf Khan, Uraujh ^c   Weenink, Carla ^e   Nackaerts, Kristiaan ^f   de Jong, Pim A ^g   Oudkerk, Matthijs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^e Department of Orthopaedic Surgery   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Growth charts; Lung neoplasms; Mass screening; Pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; LUNG TUMOR; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TIME FACTOR; TUMOR VOLUME; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NETHERLANDS; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 85014729120     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: 18728332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2017.02.021     Document Type: Article

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