Stereotactic radiotherapy for stage I non-small-cell lung cancer - The triumph of technology over biology?

Nature Clinical Practice Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 614-615

  Ball, David ^a   Withers, H Rodney ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN;

BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; HUMAN; LARYNX INJURY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIOSENSITIVITY; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SURVIVAL RATE; THERAPY EFFECT;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOSURGERY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 35648991372     PISSN: 17434254     EISSN: 17434262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncponc0954     Document Type: Review

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