Definitive treatment of poor-risk patients with stage i lung cancer: A single institution experience

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-73

  Hsie, Michael ^a   Morbidini Gaffney, Stefania ^a   Kohman, Leslie J ^b   Dexter, Elisabeth ^b   Scalzetti, Ernest M ^a   Bogart, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Medically inoperable; Non small cell lung cancer; Radiotherapy; Stage I

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 61549130955     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181914d3a     Document Type: Article

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