Improved outcomes associated with higher surgery rates for older patients with early stage nonsmall cell lung cancer

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1404-1411

  Gray, Stacy W ^a,b   Landrum, Mary Beth ^c   Lamont, Elizabeth B ^c,d   McNeil, Barbara J ^b,c   Jaklitsch, Michael T ^b   Keating, Nancy L ^b,c  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

comorbidity; geriatric oncology; nonsmall cell lung cancer; surgery; survival

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEDGE RESECTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PULMONARY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SEER PROGRAM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857372522     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26363     Document Type: Article

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