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How staging directs treatment for esophageal and lung cancer
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles.
Seminars in Surgical Oncology
|March 11, 1992
Abstract:
While staging systems may seem complicated and cumbersome at times, they are designed to stratify patients into groups by prognosis and treatment. This article reviews the staging of lung cancer and esophageal cancer, and it shows how this classification translates into different treatment plans based upon this staging.