Surgery or radiotherapy for early-stage lung cancer-a potential comparison bias

The Lancet Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Van Schil, Paul E ^a   Van Meerbeeck, Jan ^a  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EARLY CANCER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; OBSERVER BIAS; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CATHETER ABLATION; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PNEUMONECTOMY; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 84882994759     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: 14745488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(13)70296-1     Document Type: Letter

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