Lung cancer: assessing resectability
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Lung cancer: assessing resectability
Staging classification in patients with non-small cell lung cancer does not always correlate perfectly with surgical resectability. Therefore, it is important to evaluate individual features of a patient's tumor in order to determine if surgical resection is the optimal method of treatment, regardless of tumor stage. Such features include characteristics of the primary tumor, regional lymph nod...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer Imaging
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1470-7330
DOI: 10.1102/1470-7330.2003.0028