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Generation of Comprehensive Thoracic Oncology Database - Tool for Translational Research
Published on: January 22, 2011
A roundup of recently published articles relevant to thoracic oncology
Daniel Morgensztern1, Ramaswamy Govindan
1Division of Medical Oncology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Abstract:
We selected six publications for the "best of the month," published recently in peer-reviewed journals, covering a broad range of topics including second-hand smoking, intensive care unit admissions for patients with lung cancer, role of aspirin in preventing lung cancer, bleeding events in patients undergoing treatment with bevacizumab and requiring full anticoagulation, level of evidence used to support the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines, and the use of prophylactic cranial irradiation in patient with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer.
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