Visceral pleural invasion is not predictive of survival in patients with lung cancer and smaller tumor size

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1872-1877

  David, Elizabeth ^a   Thall, Peter F ^a   Kalhor, Neda ^a   Hofstetter, Wayne L ^a   Rice, David C ^a   Roth, Jack A ^a   Swisher, Stephen G ^a   Walsh, Garrett L ^a   Vaporciyan, Ara A ^a   Wei, Caimea ^a   Mehran, Reza J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PLEURA DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISCERAL PLEURAL INVASION;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; PNEUMONECTOMY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84878261048     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.03.085     Document Type: Article

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