Favorable surgical results for patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer over 80 years old: A multicenter survey

Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 154-160

  Suemitsu, Ryuichi ^a   Yamaguchi, Masafumi ^a   Takeo, Sadanori ^a   Ondo, Kaoru ^b   Ueda, Hitoshi ^b   Yoshino, Ichiro ^c   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^c  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

^b MATSUYAMA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complete resection; Nonsmall cell lung cancer; Over 80 years old; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; JAPAN; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49249088660     PISSN: 13411098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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