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Factors Associated with Lung Cancer Patients Refusing Treatment and Their Survival: A National Cohort Study under a Universal Health Insurance in Taiwan

BACKGROUND: Lung cancer is the leading cause mortality among all cancers in Taiwan. Although Taiwan offers National Health Insurance (NHI), occasionally, patients refuse treatment. This study examined the patient characteristics and factors associated with lung cancer patients refusing cancer treatm...

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Autores principales: Huang, Hsiu-Ling, Kung, Pei-Tseng, Chiu, Chang-Fang, Wang, Yueh-Hsin, Tsai, Wen-Chen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4084901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24999633
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101731