Editorial: The 7th edition of TNM in lung cancer: What now?

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 671-673

  Goldstraw, Peter ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOID; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MESOTHELIOMA; METASTASIS; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; ONCOLOGY; PLEURA CANCER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME; CANCER STAGING; CLASSIFICATION; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY;

HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING;

EID: 67849110291     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e31819e7814     Document Type: Editorial

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