P1.08-012 Characterizing Time to Care for Lung Cancer Surgical Patients
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New surgical options for elderly lung cancer patients.
To understand the size of the aging population in the United States, the imminent need to include the elderly in clinical studies on lung cancer, and the safe potential of video-assisted thoracic surgery, and to change awareness of the elderly's need for and ability to undergo treatment for lung cancer, clinical studies of video-assisted thoracic surgery in patients > or = 70 years of age are p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Thoracic Oncology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1556-0864
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2016.11.979