Solid component tumor doubling time is a prognostic factor in non-small cell lung cancer patients

Abstract Background Recently, several reports investigating tumor doubling times (TDTs) in lung cancer have demonstrated that lung cancer patients with shorter TDTs have poor prognoses. Although data have shown that the solid component of a tumor is clinically more important, relationships between s...

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Main Authors: Kentaro Miura, Kazutoshi Hamanaka, Tomonobu Koizumi, Satoshi Kawakami, Nobutaka Kobayashi, Ken-ichi Ito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-03-01
Series:Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13019-019-0879-x