Differences between squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma of the lung: Are adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma prognostically equal?

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 189-195

  Kawase, Akikazu ^a   Yoshida, Junji ^a   Ishii, Genichiro ^a   Nakao, Masayuki ^a   Aokage, Keiju ^a   Hishida, Tomoyuki ^a   Nishimura, Mitsuyo ^a   Nagai, Kanji ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Histologic type; Prognosis; Squamous cell carcinoma; TNM classification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SEGMENTECTOMY; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; SMOKING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 84857978086     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyr188     Document Type: Article

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