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Role for Surgical Resection in the Multidisciplinary Treatment of Stage IIIB Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Submitted by

Philip McElnay

Source

Source Name: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(15)00241-6/abstract

Author(s)

Matthew J. Bott, Aalok P. Patel, Traves D. Crabtree, Daniel Morgensztern, Clifford G. Robinson, Graham A. Colditz, Saiama Waqar, Daniel Kreisel, A. Sasha Krupnicka, G. Alexander Patterson, Stephen Broderick, Bryan F. Meyers, Varun Puri

Trials evaluating the use of surgery in stage IIIB NSCLC are lacking. This study goes some way to address that and demonstrates that surgery as part of multi-modality therapy may result in a survival benefit.