"Combined" small cell and "pure" small cell lung cancer: Is there a clinical difference?

Medical Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Kim, Young Hak ^a   Mishima, Michiaki ^a   Date, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; PROGASTRIN RELEASING PEPTIDE;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LARGE CELL NEUROENDOCRINE CARCINOMA; LETTER; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG SURGERY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SURVIVAL; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84877128774     PISSN: 13570560     EISSN: 1559131X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12032-013-0600-1     Document Type: Letter

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