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Surgery for early stage small cell lung cancer
  1. Ulrik Sartipy
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ulrik Sartipy, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Anesthesiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm SE-171 76, Sweden; Ulrik.Sartipy{at}karolinska.se

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-202850

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    In this database study from the USA, survival following surgical treatment for stage I and II small cell lung cancer (SCLC) was investigated. The Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, covers almost one third of the US population and captures 98% of all cancer cases in the surveyed areas. All patients between 1988 and 2007 …

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