Erratum: Postoperative radiotherapy is effective for thymic carcinoma but not for thymoma in stage II and III thymic epithelial tumors: The Japanese Association for Research on the Thymus Database Study (Cancer DOI: 10.1002/cncr.29166);Postoperative radiotherapy is effective for thymic carcinoma but not for thymoma in stage II and III thymic epithelial tumors: The Japanese Association for Research on the Thymus Database Study

Cancer

Volumn 121, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1008-1016

  Omasa, Mitsugu ^a   Date, Hiroshi ^a   Sozu, Takashi ^b   Sato, Tosiya ^b   Nagai, Kanji ^c   Yokoi, Kohei ^d   Okamoto, Tatsuro ^e   Ikeda, Norihiko ^f   Tanaka, Fumihiro ^g   Maniwa, Yoshimasa ^h  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^h KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

adjuvant radiotherapy; Masaoka stage II; Masaoka stage III; postoperative radiotherapy; relapse free survival; thymic carcinoma; thymoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; THYMOMA; THYMUS CANCER; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925449713     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.29287     Document Type: Erratum

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