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- Title
Five-Year Survival After Endosonography vs Mediastinoscopy for Mediastinal Nodal Staging of Lung Cancer.
- Authors
Kuijvenhoven, Jolanda C.; Korevaar, Daniël A.; Tournoy, Kurt G.; Malfait, Thomas L. A.; Dooms, Christophe; Rintoul, Robert C.; Annema, Jouke T.
- Abstract
The article discusses research on survival rates for patients who have undergone either endosonography or mediastinoscopy as mediastinal nodal staging treatment for lung cancer. Topics include the outcome of the trial Assessment of Surgical Staging vs Endosonographic Ultrasound in Lung Cancer (ASTER), the role of diagnosis in survival, and the management of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
- Subjects
LUNG cancer treatment; ENDOSCOPIC ultrasonography; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINAL tumors; LUNG cancer diagnosis; NON-small-cell lung carcinoma; ENDOSCOPY; LUNG cancer; LUNG tumors; LYMPH nodes; METASTASIS; TUMOR classification
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2016, Vol 316, Issue 10, p1110
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
letter
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2016.10349