Prognostic differences between oligometastatic and polymetastatic extensive disease-small cell lung cancer.

<h4>Purpose</h4>Oligometastasis is a state in which cancer patients have a limited number of metastatic tumors; patients with oligometastases survive longer than those with polymetastases. Extensive disease (ED)-small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is considered a systemic disease and a poor su...

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Main Authors: Masayuki Shirasawa, Tomoya Fukui, Seiichiro Kusuhara, Shinya Harada, Noriko Nishinarita, Yasuhiro Hiyoshi, Mikiko Ishihara, Masashi Kasajima, Satoshi Igawa, Masanori Yokoba, Hisashi Mitsufuji, Masaru Kubota, Masato Katagiri, Jiichiro Sasaki, Katsuhiko Naoki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214599