Visceral pleura invasion impact on non-small cell lung cancer patient survival: Its implications for the forthcoming tnm staging based on a large-scale nation-wide database

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 959-963

  Yoshida, Junji ^a   Nagai, Kanji ^a   Asamura, Hisao ^b   Goya, Tomoyuki ^c   Koshiishi, Yoshihiko ^c   Sohara, Yasunori ^d   Eguchi, Kenji ^e   Mori, Masaki ^f   Nakanishi, Yohichi ^g   Tsuchiya, Ryosuke ^b   Miyaoka, Etsuo ^h  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f Sapporo Kosei General Hospital   (Japan)

^g KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Non small cell lung cancer; Staging; TNM classification; Visceral pleura invasion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 68349086673     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181a85d5e     Document Type: Article

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