The Revised Stage Classification System for Primary Lung Cancer

Clinics in Chest Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 741-748

  Boffa, Daniel J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Primary lung cancer; Prognosis; Stage classification

Indexed keywords

CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SURGERY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PLEURA METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING;

EID: 80455123680     PISSN: 02725231     EISSN: 15578216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2011.08.013     Document Type: Review

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