Open AccessPatient, doctor, disease, and informed consent
Author(s) -
Riccardo Pela
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
multidisciplinary respiratory medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.72
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2049-6958
pISSN - 1828-695X
DOI - 10.4081/mrm.2011.423
Subject(s) - medicine , lung cancer , informed consent , incidence (geometry) , cardiothoracic surgery , lung disease , disease , lung cancer screening , general surgery , surgery , lung , pathology , alternative medicine , physics , optics
Lung cancer is the 10th ranking cause of death in the world: its incidence has reached a steady state in the male gender while it is still increasing in fe- males. Even if data are now available on lung can- cer screening with low-dose spiral computerized tomography [...]