Use of the proposals of the international association for the study of lung cancer in the forthcoming edition of lung cancer staging system to predict long-term prognosis of operated patients

Cancer Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 176-181

  Rena, Ottavio ^a   Massera, Fabio ^a   Robustellini, Mario ^b   Papalia, Esther ^a   Delfanti, Rocco ^b   Lisi, Elena ^a   Pirondini, Emanuele ^a   Turello, Davide ^a   Casadio, Caterina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b Morelli Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Prognosis; Staging; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BRONCHOGENIC; CARCINOMA, LARGE CELL; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951479165     PISSN: 15289117     EISSN: 1540336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PPO.0b013e3181ce474e     Document Type: Article

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