1. Computed Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer
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Michaela Straznicka, Ralph W. Aye, Richard J. Thurer, Fred Grannis, Thomas L. Bauer, Barry Sheppard, Shahriyour Andaz, James P. Smith, David F. Yankelevitz, Cliff Connery, Daniel G. Nicastri, Robert J. Korst, Claudia I. Henschke, William Mayfield, Raja M. Flores, Leslie J. Kohman, Rowena Yip, Nasser K. Altorki, and Harvey I. Pass
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Solitary pulmonary nodule ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,medicine.disease ,03 medical and health sciences ,Pneumonectomy ,0302 clinical medicine ,Positron emission tomography ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Mediastinal lymph node ,Carcinoma ,Medicine ,Surgery ,Radiology ,Stage (cooking) ,business ,Lung cancer ,Survival rate - Abstract
Objective:To compare long-term survival rates of patients with first, primary, clinical stage IA nonsmall cell lung cancer from a large cohort undergoing computed tomography screening with and without mediastinal lymph node resection (MLNR) under an Institutional Review Board-approved common protoco
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- 2017
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