Lung cancer staging techniques and induction therapy: Maybe timing is everything

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 3306-3307

  Pass, Harvey I ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDITORIAL; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; TIME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE II AS TOPIC; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION INDUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 49149099591     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2008.16.5258     Document Type: Editorial

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