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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 57, 102-106, Copyright © 1994 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Summary of current cooperative group clinical trials in thoracic malignancies. The Thoracic Intergroup

VW Rusch and RH Feins
Thoracic Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021.

Historically, thoracic surgeons have played a pivotal role in the success of clinical trials for early-stage thoracic malignancies. This is illustrated by the experience of the Veterans Administration Surgical Oncology Group and by the Lung Cancer Study Group. Since the dissolution of the Lung Cancer Study Group, the other cooperative groups have been unable to complete any large randomized trials because of a lack of surgical participation. A group of thoracic surgeons is now addressing this problem by unifying research efforts across the cooperative groups. The aim of this summary is to disseminate information about those efforts, and to encourage the involvement of North American thoracic surgeons in current clinical trials.

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