Lung cancer screening: history, current perspectives, and future directions
Lung cancer has remained the leading cause of death worldwide among all cancers. The dismal 5-year survival rate of 16% is in part due to the lack of symptoms during early stages and lack of an effective screening test until recently. Chest X-ray and sputum cytology were studied extensively as poten...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Termedia Publishing House
2015
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4624749/ |