The role of surgery in the treatment of limited disease small cell lung cancer: Time to reevaluate

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1267-1271

  Lim, Eric ^a   Belcher, Elizabeth ^a   Yap, Yoon Khoong ^a   Nicholson, Andrew G ^a   Goldstraw, Peter ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Small cell; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; EVALUATION; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58949089257     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e318189a860     Document Type: Article

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