%0 Journal Article
%T Survival in early lung cancer patients treated with high dose radiotherapy is independent of pathological confirmation
%A Christian Pirich
%A Felix Sedlmayer
%A Franz Zehentmayr
%A Gerd Fastner
%A Lukas Rettenbacher
%A Martin Sprenger
%A Michael Studnicka
%A Peter Porsch
%A Romana Wass
%J Archive of "Thoracic Cancer".
%D 2019
%R 10.1111/1759-7714.12966
%X Approximately 15% of lung cancer patients are diagnosed in early stages. Microscopic proof of disease cannot always be obtained because of comorbidity or reluctance to undergo invasive diagnostic procedures. In the current study, survival data of patients with and without pathology are compared
%K Charlson comorbidity index
%K early stage NSCLC
%K overdiagnosis
%K overtreatment
%K SBRT
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6360228/