Postoperative radiotherapy for elderly patients with stage III lung cancer

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 4478-4485

  Wisnivesky, Juan P ^a   Halm, Ethan A ^b,c   Bonomi, Marcelo ^a   Smith, Cardinale ^a   Mhango, Grace ^a   Bagiella, Emilia ^d  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

lung cancer; N2 disease; postoperative radiotherapy; survival

Indexed keywords

PLATINUM DERIVATIVE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEER PROGRAM;

EID: 84865972826     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26585     Document Type: Article

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