Guidelines for the use of spiral computed tomography in screening for lung cancer
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Guidelines for the use of spiral computed tomography in screening for lung cancer.
Screening should be considered in lung cancer, more than any other cancer. Not only is the disease highly fatal, essentially incurable, when diagnosed on the prompting of symptoms and/or clinical signs, but its occurrence is also highly concentrated in identifiably high-risk persons. The degree of usefulness of computed tomography (CT)-based screening for lung cancer must be thought of in refer...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.03.00405103