High-dose radiation therapy for inoperable non-small cell lung cancer without mediastinal involvement (clinical state N0, N1)

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 172, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 489-495

  Hayakawa, K ^a,b   Mitsuhashi, N ^a   Furuta, M ^a   Saito, Y ^a   Nakayama, Y ^a   Katano, S ^a   Yamakawa, M ^a   Hashida, I ^a   Niibe, H ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; RADIATION DOSE; SURVIVAL;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029790111     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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