Lung Cancer
Volume 68, Issue 2 , Pages 299-304 , May 2010

Costs for 5-year lung cancer survivors in a tertiary care hospital in South Korea

  • Young Sik Park

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Lung Institute of Medical Research Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, Republic of Korea
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  • Seon Ha Kim

      Affiliations

    • Medical Research Collaborating Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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  • Sue Kyung Park

      Affiliations

    • Medical Research Collaborating Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    • Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    • Seoul National University Cancer Research Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • ,
  • Byung-Joo Park

      Affiliations

    • Medical Research Collaborating Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    • Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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  • Young Tae Kim

      Affiliations

    • Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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  • Sang-Min Lee

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Lung Institute of Medical Research Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, Republic of Korea
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  • Jae-Joon Yim

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Lung Institute of Medical Research Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, Republic of Korea
  • ,
  • Chul-Gyu Yoo

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Lung Institute of Medical Research Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, Republic of Korea
  • ,
  • Young Whan Kim

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Lung Institute of Medical Research Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, Republic of Korea
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  • Sung Koo Han

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Lung Institute of Medical Research Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, Republic of Korea
  • ,
  • Young-Soo Shim

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Lung Institute of Medical Research Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, Republic of Korea
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  • Seok-Chul Yang

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Lung Institute of Medical Research Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, Republic of Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +82 2 2072 0354; fax: +82 2 762 9662.

Received 27 February 2009 ,Revised 15 June 2009 ,Accepted 20 June 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2009.06.016

Lung Cancer
Volume 68, Issue 2 , Pages 299-304 , May 2010