Bimodality surveillance of high-risk patients for lung cancer

[...]risk paradigms are changing, from smoking only to occupational, environmental or home carcinogens to the risk associated with premalignant airway changes. [...]advances in early diagnostic options have the potential to discover lung carcinoma while still in a pre-invasive, minimally invasive st...

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Published inThorax Vol. 62; no. 4; pp. 285 - 287
Main Author Downie, Gordon H
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Thoracic Society 01.04.2007
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Subjects
Biomarkers
Bronchoscopy
Cellular biology
Humans
Hypotheses
Lung cancer
Lung Neoplasms - diagnosis
Medical imaging
Occult sciences
Oncology
Risk Factors
Studies
Surveillance
Tumors
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Summary:[...]risk paradigms are changing, from smoking only to occupational, environmental or home carcinogens to the risk associated with premalignant airway changes. [...]advances in early diagnostic options have the potential to discover lung carcinoma while still in a pre-invasive, minimally invasive stage or as small peripheral nodules.
Bibliography:Correspondence to:
 Dr Gordon H Downie
 Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, 3E-149 Brody Bld, Greenville, North Carolina 27858, USA
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Are new diagnostic strategies providing answers?
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DOI:10.1136/thx.2006.073577