Ignoring early symptoms of lung cancer
Other findings were that patients who entered the healthcare system via their GP were diagnosed more quickly than those entering by other routes
Lung cancer kills more people than any other cancer in the UK because only 10 per cent of people diagnosed are operable. However, recent research published in the medical journal Thorax, challenges this thinking–which could be good news for the 33,000 people whose lives it claims every year (Corner et al 2005).
Cancer Nursing Practice.
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doi: 10.7748/cnp2005.05.4.4.6.c189
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