Proper treatment selection may improve survival in patients with clinical early-stage nonsmall cell lung cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1021-1026

  Birim, Özcan ^a   Kappetein, A Pieter ^a   Goorden, Tom ^a   Van Klaveren, Rob J ^a   Bogers, Ad J J C ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCALE UP; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NETHERLANDS; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 23944488267     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.03.072     Document Type: Article

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