Lung Cancer Staging: A Case for a New T Definition

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 220-226

  Mulligan, Charles R ^a   Meram, Amir D ^b,c   Proctor, Courtney D ^c   Wu, Hongyu ^b   Zhu, Kangmin ^b   Marrogi, Aizen J ^a,c  

^a Area Laboratory Services   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGE FACTORS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PLEURA; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RISK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745198419     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.02.032     Document Type: Article

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