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Chemotherapy Failed to Prolong Life in Early-Stage Lung Cancer: NATCH Trial
Chemotherapy Failed to Prolong Life in Early-Stage Lung Cancer: NATCH Trial
B Bates
20090704
2009 Aug 4
Elsevier Global Medical News
Chemotherapy Failed to Prolong Life in Early-Stage Lung Cancer: NATCH Trial
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2009 Aug 4, B Bates
SAN FRANCISCO (EGMN) - An ambitious European trial failed to show any significant differences in overall survival among early-stage lung cancer patients randomized to receive either surgery alone or surgery in combination with preoperative or adjunctive chemotherapy.Results of the much-awaited NATCH (Neoadjuvant or Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Patients With Operable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer) trial were presented Aug. 3 at the World Conference on Lung Cancer.In all, 624 patients with clinical stage...