Relationship between tumor size and disease stage in non-small cell lung cancer

BMC Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Yang, Fu ^a,b   Chen, Haiquan ^a,b   Xiang, Jiaqing ^a,b   Zhang, Yawei ^a,b   Zhou, Jianhua ^a,b   Hu, Hong ^a,b   Zhang, Jie ^a,b   Luo, Xiaoyang ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CHINESE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, ADENOSQUAMOUS; CARCINOMA, LARGE CELL; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956470304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-10-474     Document Type: Article

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