Updated lung cancer staging system

Future Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1545-1553

  Rami Porta, Ramon ^a   Chansky, Kari ^b   Goldstraw, Peter ^c  

^a HOSPITAL MÚTUA DE TERRASSA   (Spain)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carcinoid tumors; Lung cancer staging; Metastasis; Nodal disease; Non small cell lung cancer; Small cell lung cancer; TNM classification; Tumor size

Indexed keywords

CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOID; DATA BASE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR VOLUME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 75149158155     PISSN: 14796694     EISSN: 17448301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fon.09.131     Document Type: Review

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