Adjuvant vs neoadjuvant chemotherapy in resectable NSCLC: Is that the real question?

ONCOLOGY

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 534-538

  Strauss, Gary M ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; MITOMYCIN; PACLITAXEL;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; META ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NOTE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 67650473294     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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