Multi-modality mediastinal staging for lung cancer among medicare beneficiaries.

Farjah, Farhood

Multi-modality mediastinal staging for lung cancer among medicare beneficiaries. [electronic resource] - Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Mar 2009 - 355-63 p. digital

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

1556-1380

10.1097/JTO.0b013e318197f4d9 doi


Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Analysis of Variance
Biopsy, Needle
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung--mortality
Carcinoma, Small Cell--mortality
Cohort Studies
Confidence Intervals
Diagnostic Imaging--methods
Endosonography
Female
Humans
Immunohistochemistry
Lung Neoplasms--mortality
Male
Mediastinoscopy
Medicare
Multivariate Analysis
Neoplasm Invasiveness--pathology
Neoplasm Staging--methods
Positron-Emission Tomography
Prognosis
Registries
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors
SEER Program
Socioeconomic Factors
Survival Analysis
Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
United States