Survival in Primary Carcinoma of the Lung
- 31 March 1949
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 240 (13), 491-497
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm194903312401301
Abstract
THE ability to utilize a lung as a unit of excision has made it possible to think in terms of cure when that organ is the primary site of cancer. This state of affairs has existed but for fifteen years,1 2 3 4 and before that time cancer of the lung was invariably fatal. However new the experience in the surgical management of cancer in this location, a sufficient period has elapsed to permit a fair appraisal of benefits in respect to palliation and cure rates.During the period in which surgery has been applied for carcinoma of the lung, one of us . . .Keywords
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