A recent article by Hotta and colleagues 1 reports that survival of patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) improved slowly over time from 1982 to 2002. Authors pooled together 121 phase 3 trials (42,768 patients overall),
Recent improvement in the survival of patients with advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer enrolled in phase III trials of first-line, systemic chemotherapy
β Scribed by Katsuyuki Hotta; Yoshiro Fujiwara; Keitaro Matsuo; Takeshi Suzuki; Katsuyuki Kiura; Masahiro Tabata; Nagio Takigawa; Hiroshi Ueoka; Mitsune Tanimoto
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 264 KB
- Volume
- 109
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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