Thoracic multidisciplinary tumor board routinely impacts therapeutic plans in patients with lung and esophageal cancer: A prospective cohort study

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1719-1724

  Schmidt, Henner M ^a   Roberts, John M ^a   Bodnar, Artur M ^a   Kunz, Sonia ^a   Kirtland, Steven H ^a   Koehler, Richard P ^a   Hubka, Michal ^a   Low, Donald E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING; ADULT; ADVISORY COMMITTEE; AGED; CONSENSUS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT SELECTION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; ADVISORY COMMITTEES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSENSUS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84929518095     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.11.019     Document Type: Article

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