Early diagnosis for geriatric lung cancer: a review
  
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DOI:10.3724/SP.J.1264.2012.00149
Key words:elderly  lung neoplasm  diagnosis
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ZHANG Yuping, YANG Shuanying Department of Respiratory Diseases, Second Affiliated HospitalMedical College, Xi¢an Jiaotong University, Xi¢an 710004, China yangshuanying66@163.com 
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Abstract:
      Lung cancer is a malignant tumor with the highest morbidity and mortality worldwide at present. As the global population is tend to aging, the morbidity and mortality of geriatric lung cancer is on the rise now, and the overall survival is poor. Therefore, early diagnosis is the key to improving the prognosis of lung cancer. This article discusses the status quo, advances and problems of diagnosis for lung cancer, and expIores the direction of future research.
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