Is symptom-based diagnosis of lung cancer possible? A systematic review and meta-analysis of symptomatic lung cancer prior to diagnosis for comparison with real-time data from routine general practice

• Grace N. Okoli ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: grace.okoli@kcl.ac.uk

  Affiliation Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care, School of Population Health & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1740-4058

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• Olga Kostopoulou,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Reader in Medical Decision Making, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom

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• Brendan C. Delaney

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chair in Medical Informatics and Decision Making, Imperial College London, Department of Surgery and Cancer, St Mary's Campus, London, United Kingdom

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