Lung cancer in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND:There are many epidemiological pieces of evidence that show IPF patients have the highest risk of lung cancer. We conducted a systematic review of all published data to define the characteristics of lung cancer that develops in IPF by performing a meta-analysis. METHOD:This study was perf...

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Main Authors: AliReza JafariNezhad, Mohammad Hossein YektaKooshali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6095562?pdf=render