Should the 7th edition of the lung cancer stage classification system change treatment algorithms in non-small ell lung cancer?

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1779-1783

  Boffa, Daniel J ^a   Detterbeck, Frank C ^a   Smith, Erica J ^b   Rami Porta, Ramon ^c   Crowley, John ^d   Zelterman, Daniel ^a   Tanoue, Lynn ^a   Kim, Anthony W ^a   Goldstraw, Peter ^e  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b National Cancer Data Base   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^e ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Staging; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 78149446125     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181ee80c7     Document Type: Article

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