Cargando…

Lung Cancer Screening for the Poor and Underserved: Should Routine Screening be Performed?

BACKGROUND: Lung cancer is a leading cause of death in United States. A recent study using low dose CT scans for screening long term smokers for lung cancer has, for the first time, demonstrated reduction in mortality, although it is not a standard of care in the community yet. METHOD: We analyzed l...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Verma, Vaibhav, Gotlieb, Vladimir K., Fogel, Joshua, Multz, Alan S., Sharma, Geeti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2012
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5649787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29147289
http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/wjon509w