Surgery in the tri-modality treatment of small cell lung cancer.Stage-dependent survival
Author(s) -
A Granetzny,
A.-W. A. Boseila,
William Wagner,
G KRUKEMEYER,
U Vogt,
E. Hecker,
Olaf Koch,
F. Klinke
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1873-734X
pISSN - 1010-7940
DOI - 10.1016/j.ejcts.2006.05.002
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , radiation therapy , thoracotomy , chemotherapy , stage (stratigraphy) , lung cancer , regimen , mediastinal lymph node , pneumonectomy , cancer , metastasis , paleontology , biology
Patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) are frequently denied surgical treatment despite growing body of evidence for a longer duration of remission and overall survival, if surgical intervention is integrated in a tri-modality therapy concept including chemotherapy, surgery, and radiotherapy.
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