Non-small cell lung cancer in the young: A retrospective analysis of diagnosis, management and outcome data

Anticancer Research

Volumn 26, Issue 4 B, 2006, Pages 3175-3182

  Mauri, D ^a   Pentheroudakis, G ^a   Bafaloukos, D ^a   Pectasides, D ^a   Samantas, E ^a   Efstathiou, E ^a   Kalofonos, H P ^a   Syrigos, K ^a   Klouvas, G ^a   Papakostas, P ^a   Kosmidis, P ^a   Fountzilas, G ^a   Pavlidis, Nicholas ^a,b  

^a Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Non small cell lung cancer; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DATA BASE; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CLINICAL TRIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746773056     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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