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Do Lung Cancer Eligibility Criteria Align with Risk among Blacks and Hispanics?

BACKGROUND: Black patients have higher lung cancer risk despite lower pack years of smoking. We assessed lung cancer risk by race, ethnicity, and sex among a nationally representative population eligible for lung cancer screening based on Medicare criteria. METHODS: We used data from the National He...

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Autores principales: Fiscella, Kevin, Winters, Paul, Farah, Subrina, Sanders, Mechelle, Mohile, Supriya G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4664289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26618478
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143789