Year: 2012
Type: letter
Abstract: Treasure and colleagues1 provided a welcomed counterpoint to the belief that resection rate should go up in England. However, we feel the editorial is intentionally controversial and biased against the role of surgery. In particular, the authors question the relationship between resection rate and outcome but fail to cite the recent evidence that relates resection rate to survival in the UK: that the small excess mortality from operating in higher-risk groups was more than justified by the increase in overall survival from lung cancer.2
In terms of treatment, …
Source: Thorax
Authors: Kelvin K W Lau, David A Waller, Sridhar Rathinam, Richard Page, Mick D Peake
Institutions: Glenfield Hospital, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital
Language: English
Subfield: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2117935965