Committee recommended that the TNM staging system be used to stage SCLC in both routine practice and clinical trial design. 4 The standard treatment for LS-SCLC is definitive chemoradiation therapy without surgery; however, whether surgery has a role in
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As the incidence of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) has increased, so has the number of DCIS survivors. 1 Most patients with DCIS are treated with breast-conserving surgery (BCS). 2 Radiation therapy (RT) and antiestrogen therapy (AET) have been
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