2017
4B.02 Increasing Survival in Stage IV NSCLC in Academic versus Community Based Centers in the National Cancer Database Topic: Medical Oncology
Ramalingam S, Dinan M, Crawford J. 4B.02 Increasing Survival in Stage IV NSCLC in Academic versus Community Based Centers in the National Cancer Database Topic: Medical Oncology. Journal Of Thoracic Oncology 2017, 12: s1560. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2017.09.029.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2012
Stage Migration, Selection Bias, and Survival Associated With the Adoption of Positron Emission Tomography Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer, 1998-2003
Dinan MA, Curtis LH, Carpenter WR, Biddle AK, Abernethy AP, Patz EF, Schulman KA, Weinberger M. Stage Migration, Selection Bias, and Survival Associated With the Adoption of Positron Emission Tomography Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer, 1998-2003. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2012, 30: 2725-2730. PMID: 22753917, DOI: 10.1200/jco.2011.40.4392.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPositron emission tomographyOverall survivalStage migrationMedicare beneficiariesAdvanced diseasePET useEnd Results-Medicare dataEmission tomographyProportion of patientsStage IV diseaseCell lung cancerSelection biasUpstaging of diseaseGreater overall survivalStage-specific survivalStudy criteriaLung cancerSurvival AssociatedImproved outcomesRetrospective analysisStage distributionNSCLCPatientsDiseaseSurvival