Initial medical attention on patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 7; no. 3; p. e32644
• Main Authors: Chen, Xing, Gorlov, Ivan P, Ying, Jun, Merriman, Kelly W, Kimmel, Marek, Lu, Charles, Reyes-Gibby, Cielito C, Gorlova, Olga Y
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 07.03.2012; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Analysis; Biology; Cancer; Cancer research; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - diagnosis; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - mortality; Diagnosis; Electronic health records; Epidemiology; Female; Gender; Health aspects; Health risk assessment; Humans; Lung cancer; Lung diseases; Lung Neoplasms - diagnosis; Lung Neoplasms - mortality; Male; Medical diagnosis; Medical records; Medical screening; Medicine; Middle Aged; Mortality; Neoplasm Staging; Non-small cell lung cancer; Non-small cell lung carcinoma; Ovarian cancer; Patients; Primary care; Prognosis; Registries; Retrospective Studies; Small cell lung cancer; Smoking; Survival; Tumor Burden; Womens health; United States > US; Texas

Detection of early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is commonly believed to be incidental. Understanding the reasons that caused initial detection of these patients is important for early diagnosis. However, these reasons are not well studied. We retrospectively reviewed medical records of p...