A pooled analysis of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy versus lobectomy for operable stage I non-small cell lung cancer: Is failure to recruit patients into randomized trials also an answer to the research question?

Annals of Translational Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Nieder, Carsten ^a,b   Andratschke, Nicolaus H ^c   Guckenberger, Matthias ^c  

^a NORDLAND HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 85015472064     PISSN: 23055839     EISSN: 23055847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2305-5839.2015.06.05     Document Type: Editorial

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