Revisiting stage IIIB and IV non-small cell lung cancer: Analysis of the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results data

Chest

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 701-709

  William Jr , William N ^a   Lin, Heather Y ^a   Lee, J Jack ^a   Lippman, Scott M ^a   Roth, Jack A ^a   Kim, Edward S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLEURA EFFUSION; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 70049112736     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.08-2968     Document Type: Article

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