Predicting death from surgery for lung cancer: A comparison of two scoring systems in two European countries

Highlights • This study validates two surgical risk scores for non-small cell lung cancer. • Neither score is good enough to provide accurate individual estimates of mortality. • We produce summary tables that provide real-life ranges of mortality after surgery. • Until more accurate individual scor...

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Veröffentlicht in:Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Netherlands), 2016-05, Vol.95, p.88-93
Hauptverfasser: O’Dowd, Emma L, Lüchtenborg, Margreet, Baldwin, David R, McKeever, Tricia M, Powell, Helen A, Møller, Henrik, Jakobsen, Erik, Hubbard, Richard B
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Zusammenfassung:Highlights • This study validates two surgical risk scores for non-small cell lung cancer. • Neither score is good enough to provide accurate individual estimates of mortality. • We produce summary tables that provide real-life ranges of mortality after surgery. • Until more accurate individual scores are available we propose using our tables.
ISSN:0169-5002
1872-8332
DOI:10.1016/j.lungcan.2016.03.002