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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;81:1193
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Original article: General thoracic

Invited commentary

Richard Whyte, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, CVRB 205, Stanford University Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Dr, Stanford, CA 94305

(Email: riwhyte@stanford.edu).

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In the retrospective study by Yoshino and colleagues [1], the authors principal conclusion is that smoking is an independent predictor of survival in stage I patients with adenocarcinoma of the lung. This conclusion is based on the observations that (1) smokers had disproportionate numbers of higher stage patients, and that (2) at least for stage I patients, smoking was an independent predictor of survival. In addition, the authors observed that stage IB . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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