POINT: Should Lung Cancer Screening Be Expanded to Persons Who Don't Currently Meet Accepted Criteria Set Forth by the CHEST Guidelines on Lung Cancer Screening? Yes

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Volumn 153, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 1299-1302

  Wood, Douglas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

AGE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; EMPHYSEMA; FAMILY HISTORY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EQUITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FIBROSIS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ONLINE SYSTEM; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY; AGED; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 85047354372     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2018.03.017     Document Type: Editorial

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