EDITORIAL
Survival after resection for primary lung cancer
Survival after resection for primary lung cancer
1 Thoracic Unit, Guy’s Hospital, London, UK
2 Clinical Operational Research Unit, University College London, London, UK
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor T Treasure
Thoracic Unit, Guy’s Hospital, London SE1 9RT, UK; tom.treasure@ukgateway.net
To extend the role of surgery in lung cancer we will need an evidence base of which good observational data is a crucial component
Keywords: lung cancer; survival
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Nearly all that we believe in surgery and nearly all that we practise is based on observational data, usually in the form of collected series.1 Lung cancer surgery is no exception, and we rely—and will continue to rely—on the analysis of observational data. Observational research has tended to be denigrated and neglected.2 There is currently a lack of broad based data of sufficiently high quality,3 so we welcome the Norwegian population based study reported by Strand et al in this issue of Thorax.4
The Scandinavian nations have been a great resource of high quality observational data and, in the BMJ alone, we have seen many community based,5 population based,6–8 and registry studies,8 of which those cited5–8 are a tiny but representative sample of the many submitted. Indeed, UK groups have been attracted to these databases for their own studies.5,9 Scandinavian society has
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