Adjuvant chemotherapy after complete resection for early stage NSCLC.
Adjuvant chemotherapy after complete resection for early stage NSCLC.
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DOI：
10.1016/s0169-5002(03)00304-0
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发表时间：
2003-12
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影响因子：
5.3
通讯作者：
G. Scagliotti;S. Novello
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作者：
G. Scagliotti;S. Novello
Less than 20–25% of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients present with stage I or II disease are best treated by surgical resection. Long-term survival in NSCLC remains poor also in these early stages: the 5-year survival rate of patients who undergo complete surgical resection is only 40 to 50%. The majority of post-surgical relapses are distant metastases with the risk of a local recurrence after complete resection being less than 10%. Postoperative treatments, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy or both, have been widely evaluated during the last decades and, unfortunately, none has demonstrated any significant impact on survival. Data regarding large-scale adjuvant chemotherapy trials, closed for the accrual almost four to five years ago, will be fully available soon and, hopefully, a specific meta-analysis will be performed.
