Lung cancer screening feasibility in Australia.

نویسندگان

  • Henry M Marshall
  • Rayleen V Bowman
  • John Ayres
  • Jane Crossin
  • Melanie Lau
  • Richard E Slaughter
  • Stanley Redmond
  • Linda Passmore
  • Elizabeth McCaul
  • Deborah Courtney
  • Steven C Leong
  • Morgan Windsor
  • Paul V Zimmerman
  • Ian A Yang
  • Kwun M Fong
چکیده

Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, King’s Lynn, UK. James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Great Yarmouth, UK. Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Peterborough, UK. West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bury St Edmunds, UK. Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust, Chelmsford, UK. MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. These authors contributed equally.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The European respiratory journal

دوره 45 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015