Small-cell lung cancer in England: Trends in survival and chemotherapy using the national lung cancer audit

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Khakwani, Aamir ^a   Rich, Anna L ^b   Tata, Laila J ^a   Powell, Helen A ^a   Stanley, Rosamund A ^c   Baldwin, David R ^b   Hubbard, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c Health and Social Care Information Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NATIONAL LUNG CANCER AUDIT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; REFERENCE DATABASE; UNITED KINGDOM; ADULT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; REGISTER; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84896138328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089426     Document Type: Article

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