Strength and weakness of the new TNM classification for lung cancer

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 237-239

  Rami Porta, R ^a   Goldstraw, P ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; LUNG CANCER; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY MEDICINE; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77955600263     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00016210     Document Type: Editorial

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