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The great debate flashes: surgery versus stereotactic body radiotherapy as the primary treatment of early-stage lung cancer.
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The great debate flashes: surgery versus stereotactic body radiotherapy as the primary treatment of early-stage lung cancer.

  • Weder W Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Moghanaki D Department of Radiation Oncology, Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
  • Stiles B Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Medicine, New York Presbyterian, New York, NY, USA.
  • Siva S Department of Radiation Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Rocco G Department of Thoracic Diseases, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, IRCCS, Fondazione 'G. Pascale', Naples, Italy.
  • 2018-01-09
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  • European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery. - 2018
Lung cancer
Stereotactic body radiotherapy
Surgery
Thoracoscopy
Thoracotomy
Humans
Lung Neoplasms
Pneumonectomy
Quality of Life
Radiosurgery
Time-to-Treatment
Treatment Outcome
English Stereotactic body radiotherapy is gaining favour as an alternative therapeutic modality to surgery for patients with early-stage lung cancer. An exponential increase of contributions in the literature has generated a bulk of discordant evidence supporting therapeutic choice for the treatment of fit and medically inoperable patients. This 'Great Debate Flashes' paper aims at producing an up-to-date, concise and user-friendly review of the arguments that surgeons and radiation oncologists bring forward in the discussions with patients and colleagues.
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  • English
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https://sonar.ch/global/documents/47441
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