title: Surgical resection or stereotactic body radiation therapy in elderly patients with early-stage lung cancer: evolving treatment algorithms and a call for reliable comparisons.
abstract: David Palma and colleagues report on the impact of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) on treatment patterns of elderly patients in the Netherlands. This study, published recently in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, is a retrospective review of data collected by the Amsterdam Cancer Registry. This study highlights many of the difficulties encountered when comparing the effectiveness of surgical resection and SBRT.
authors: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA. michael.ebright@bmc.org
authors: Michael I
authors: MI
authors: Ebright
authors: Hiran C
authors: HC
authors: Fernando
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000465:Algorithms; D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D018579:Patient Selection; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000401:mortality; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D016634:Radiosurgery / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000401:mortality; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D016896:Treatment Outcome