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Forecasting the impact of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for early-stage lung cancer on the thoracic surgery workforce

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

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Source

Source Name: Eur J Cardiothorac Surg

Source URL: http://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/49/6/1599.abstract

Author(s)

Janet P. Edwards, Indraneel Datta, John Douglas Hunt, Kevin Stefan, Chad G. Ball, Elijah Dixon, and Sean C. Grondin

This award-winning study estimates the required thoracic surgery workforce until 2050 in consideration of the incidence of non-small-cell lung cancer, appropriate use of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy and a nation-wide CT-screening program at the example of Canada.