Stage migration, selection bias, and survival associated with the adoption of positron emission tomography among medicare beneficiaries with non-small-cell lung cancer, 1998-2003.

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Published in J Clin Oncol on July 02, 2012

Authors

Michaela A Dinan1, Lesley H Curtis, William R Carpenter, Andrea K Biddle, Amy P Abernethy, Edward F Patz, Kevin A Schulman, Morris Weinberger

Author Affiliations

1: Duke Clinical Research Institute, PO Box 17969, Durham, NC 27715, USA.

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