Surgical resection of lung cancer England: more operations but no trials to test their effectiveness
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Surgical resection of lung cancer England: more operations but no trials to test their effectiveness.
Ten years ago a joint working group of The British Thoracic Society and the Society for Thoracic Surgery in Great Britain in Ireland published its findings, concluding that there was ‘critical underprovision of Thoracic Surgery in the UK’. 2 The situation has improved according to Lung Cancer Data (LUCADA), the National Lung Cancer Audit, and the English Cancer Repository Dataset reported in th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0040-6376,1468-3296
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-202006