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Influence of the distance between home and the hospital on patients with surgically resected non-small-cell lung cancer

Monday, March 7, 2016

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Source

Source Name: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/49/3/842.abstract

Author(s)

Tomoyoshi Takenaka, Eiko Inamasu, Tsukihisa Yoshida, Gouji Toyokawa, Kaname Nosaki, Fumihiko Hirai, Masafumi Yamaguchi, Takashi Seto, Mitsuhiro Takenoyama, and Yukito Ichinose

607 consecutive patients with non-small-cell lung cancer who had undergone pulmonary resection were analyzed according to the distance from their home to the hospital: 0 < 10, 10–30 and >30 km. The mean postoperative hospital stay differed between the groups, but there were no significant differences in the median length of follow-up, disease-free survival.