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Editorial
. 2020 Jun 22;9(4):LMT35.
doi: 10.2217/lmt-2020-0015.

Lung cancer screening guidelines are clear but are they being followed?

Coral Olazagasti  1 , Carolina Bernabe  2 , Nagashree Seetharamu  1
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Editorial

Lung cancer screening guidelines are clear but are they being followed?

Coral Olazagasti et al. Lung Cancer Manag. .
No abstract available

Keywords: cancer; chemotherapy; imaging; lung; metastasis; oncology; side effects; solid tumors; surgery; surgical.

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Conflict of interest statement

Financial & competing interests disclosure N Seetharamu is part of the advisory board for Amgen, Genentech, AZ and Takeda. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed. No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.

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