Impact of Adjuvant Radiation on Survival: A Note of Caution When Using Cancer Registry Data to Evaluate Adjuvant Treatments

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Summary

For selected tumor sites, the administration of chemotherapy is not evenly distributed among patients receiving and not receiving radiation, and survival analyses that do not include chemotherapy administration overestimate the beneficial impact of radiation on survival.

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article
Published
2007-09-27
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Medicine, Radiation therapy, Chemotherapy, Surgical oncology, Cancer

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