The IASLC lung cancer staging project: The new database to inform the eighth edition of the TNM classification of lung cancer

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1618-1624

  Rami Porta, Ramón ^a,b   Bolejack, Vanessa ^c   Giroux, Dorothy J ^c   Chansky, Kari ^c   Crowley, John ^c   Asamura, Hisao ^d   Goldstraw, Peter ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Lung cancer databases; Lung cancer staging; Nonsmall cell lung cancer; Small cell lung cancer; TNM classification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; DATA BASE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTH AMERICA; SURGICAL PATIENT; TUMOR VOLUME; CLASSIFICATION; LUNG TUMOR; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84925773492     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0000000000000334     Document Type: Article

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