The impact of surgical adjuvant thoracic radiation for different stages of non-small cell lung cancer: The experience from a single institution

Lung Cancer

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-17

  Rodrigus, Patrick ^a  

^a DR BERNARD VERBEETEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adjuvant irradiation; Non small cell lung cancer; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0033023586     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5002(98)00099-3     Document Type: Article

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