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Ann Thorac Surg 1997;63:1450
© 1997 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Invited Commentary

Invited Commentary

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave, New York, NY 10021

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See also page 1441.

Vansteenkiste and associates are to be congratulated on a detailed analysis with relatively long-term follow-up of patients with resected non–small cell lung cancer proving to have N2 disease either preoperatively or at operation. With multivariant analysis techniques, they have confirmed the adverse prognostic factors that so many other authors have also detailed. There is very little new in this article other than the long follow-up and detailed multivariant analysis. Results are . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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