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SUBMITTER: Artal Cortes A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4384209 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Artal Cortés Ángel Á Calera Urquizu Lourdes L Hernando Cubero Jorge J
Translational lung cancer research 20150401 2
Adjuvant chemotherapy (AC) plays now a significant role in the treatment of resected non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients and has become standard in clinical practice. It took more than two decades of clinical research to show its value, but it is has been well established that its benefit translates into a 4-5% absolute increase in 5-year survival according to published meta-analysis. This improvement is obtained with two-drug, Cisplatin-based regimens (multiples choices are acceptable b ...[more]