The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 4 , Pages 826-829 , April 2010

A cancer staging primer: Lung

  • Thomas W. Rice, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Thomas W. Rice, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 9500 Euclid Ave/Desk J4-1, Cleveland, OH 44195.
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  • Sudish C. Murthy, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • David P. Mason, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • Eugene H. Blackstone, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
    • Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

Received 4 November 2009 ,Accepted 7 November 2009.

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  5. Rusch VW, Asamura H, Watanabe H, Giroux DJ, Rami-Porta R, Goldstraw P. Members of IASLC Staging Committee. The IASLC lung cancer staging project: a proposal for a new international lymph node map in the forthcoming seventh edition of the TNM classification for lung cancer. J Thorac Oncol. 2009;4:568–577
  6. Strauss GM, Herndon JE, Maddaus MA, Johnstone DW, Johnson EA, Harpole DH, et al. Adjuvant paclitaxel plus carboplatin compared with observation in stage IB non-small-cell lung cancer: CALGB 9633 with the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, and North Central Cancer Treatment Study Groups. J Clin Oncol. 2008;26:5043–5051

 Funded by the Daniel and Karen Lee Endowed Chair in Thoracic Surgery (Dr Rice) and the Kenneth Gee and Paula Shaw, PhD, Chair in Heart Research (Dr Blackstone).

PII: S0022-5223(09)01465-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.11.010

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 4 , Pages 826-829 , April 2010

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