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    Thoracic Cancer: Volume 7, Issue 4

    377-511
    July 2016
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Issue Information

  • Pages: 377-378
  • First Published: 03 July 2016

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

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Rapamycin-induced autophagy sensitizes A549 cells to radiation associated with DNA damage repair inhibition

Yong Li,  Fen Liu,  Yong Wang,  Donghai Li,  Fei Guo,  Liyao Xu,  Zhengguo Zeng,  Xiaojun Zhong,  Kejian Qian, 
  • Pages: 379-386
  • First Published: 08 March 2016
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Body mass index and long-term risk of death from esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in a Chinese population

Shao-Ming Wang,  Jin-Hu Fan,  Meng-Meng Jia,  Zhao Yang,  Yu-Qing Zhang,  You-Lin Qiao,  Philip R. Taylor, 
  • Pages: 387-392
  • First Published: 07 April 2016
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Predictors of survival in patients who underwent video-assisted thoracic surgery talc pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusion

Dong Woog Yoon,  Jong Ho Cho,  Yong Soo Choi,  Jhingook Kim,  Hong Kwan Kim,  Jae Ill Zo,  Young Mog Shim, 
  • Pages: 393-398
  • First Published: 05 May 2016
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Exploration of optimal time for initiating adjuvant chemotherapy after surgical resection: A retrospective study in Chinese patients with stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer in a single center

Yixiang Zhu,  Xiaoyu Zhai,  Sipeng Chen,  Ziping Wang, 
  • Pages: 399-405
  • First Published: 25 February 2016
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Epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy is especially beneficial to patients with exon 19 deletion compared with exon 21 L858R mutation in non-small-cell lung cancer: Systematic review and meta analysis

Yinghui Liu,  Zuen Ren,  Jinghui Wang,  Shucai Zhang, 
  • Pages: 406-414
  • First Published: 15 March 2016
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Prognostic significance of RelB overexpression in non-small cell lung cancer patients

Hualong Qin,  Jun Zhou,  Peng Zhou,  Jingjing Xu,  Zaixiang Tang,  Haitao Ma,  Feng Guo, 
  • Pages: 415-421
  • First Published: 24 March 2016
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Pilot study of radiofrequency hyperthermia in combination with gefitinib in gefitinib-effective patients with advanced NSCLC

Yijia Qin,  Yu Sun,  Yongmei Liu,  Yiqiao Luo,  Jiang Zhu, 
  • Pages: 422-427
  • First Published: 24 March 2016
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Evaluation of a novel saliva-based epidermal growth factor receptor mutation detection for lung cancer: A pilot study

Dan Pu,  Hao Liang,  Fang Wei,  David Akin,  Ziding Feng,  QingXiang Yan,  Yin Li,  Yan Zhen,  Lin Xu,  Gaochao Dong,  Huajing Wan,  Jingsi Dong,  Xiaoming Qiu,  Changlong Qin,  Daxing Zhu,  Xi Wang,  Tong Sun,  Wenbiao Zhang,  Canjun Li,  Xiaojun Tang,  Youlin Qiao,  David T.W. Wong,  Qinghua Zhou, 
  • Pages: 428-436
  • First Published: 13 May 2016
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Icotinib as initial treatment in lung adenocarcinoma patients with brain metastases

Jian-ping Xu,  Xiao-yan Liu,  Sheng Yang,  Chang-gong Zhang,  Lin Wang,  Yuan-kai Shi, 
  • Pages: 437-441
  • First Published: 05 April 2016
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Clinical outcomes of video-assisted thoracic surgery and stereotactic body radiation therapy for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer: A meta-analysis

Longfei Ma,  Jiaqing Xiang, 
  • Pages: 442-451
  • First Published: 05 May 2016
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Clinical effect of pemetrexed as the first-line treatment in Chinese patients with advanced anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive non-small cell lung cancer

Di Ma,  Xuezhi Hao,  Yan Wang,  Puyuan Xing,  Junling Li, 
  • Pages: 452-458
  • First Published: 11 May 2016
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Fibrobronchoscopic cryosurgery for secondary malignant tumors of the trachea and main bronchi

Qianli Ma,  Bin Shi,  Yanchu Tian,  Deruo Liu, 
  • Pages: 459-466
  • First Published: 15 March 2016
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Prospective study of the UGT1A1*27 gene polymorphism during irinotecan therapy in patients with lung cancer: Results of Lung Oncology Group in Kyusyu (LOGIK1004B)

Minoru Fukuda,  Takayuki Suetsugu,  Midori Shimada,  Takeshi Kitazaki,  Kohji Hashiguchi,  Junji Kishimoto,  Taishi Harada,  Takashi Seto,  Noriyuki Ebi,  Koichi Takayama,  Kenji Sugio,  Hiroshi Semba,  Yoichi Nakanishi,  Yukito Ichinose, 
  • Pages: 467-472
  • First Published: 11 May 2016
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Identification of false-negative and false-positive diagnoses of lymph node metastases in non-small cell lung cancer patients staged by integrated 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography: A retrospective cohort study

Kaoru Kaseda,  Ken-ichi Watanabe,  Keisuke Asakura,  Akio Kazama,  Yukihiko Ozawa, 
  • Pages: 473-480
  • First Published: 05 May 2016
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Small activating ribonucleic acid reverses tyrosine kinase inhibitor resistance in epidermal growth factor receptor-mutant lung cancer by increasing the expression of phosphatase and tensin homolog

Meng Li,  Zhongmin Peng,  Wangang Ren,  Zhou Wang, 
  • Pages: 481-485
  • First Published: 12 May 2016
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Topoisomerase I expression is associated with prognosis in postoperative non-small cell lung cancer patients

Baohua Lu,  Hongmei Zhang,  Tongmei Zhang,  Yiran Cai,  Ying Hu,  Hua Zheng,  Baolan Li, 
  • Pages: 486-494
  • First Published: 11 May 2016

CASE REPORTS

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Thoracoscopic tracheal reconstruction without surgical field intubation

Kejia Zhao,  Jiandong Mei,  Yang Hai,  Chengwu Liu,  Lin Ma,  Lunxu Liu, 
  • Pages: 495-497
  • First Published: 20 January 2016
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Gefitinib for asymptomatic brain metastasis from advanced non-small cell lung cancer: Report of a favourable outcome

Wen-Yang Liu,  Yu-Tao Liu,  Lin Yang,  Ye Zhang,  Peng Liu,  Yan Wang,  Zhou-Guang Hui, 
  • Pages: 498-502
  • First Published: 02 February 2016
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Pulmonary malignant melanoma with distant metastasis assessed by positron emission tomography-computed tomography

So Ri Kim,  Ha-Yong Yoon,  Gong Yong Jin,  Yeong Hun Choe,  Seung Yong Park,  Yong Chul Lee, 
  • Pages: 503-507
  • First Published: 25 February 2016
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Pulmonary sclerosing pneumocytoma mimicking lung cancer: Case report and review of the literature

Jung-Hwan Lim,  Nuri Lee,  Dae-Woong Choi,  Hyung-Joo Oh,  Ha Young Park,  Ki-Hyun Kim,  Tae-Ok Kim,  Cheol-Kyu Park,  Hong-Jun Shin,  Yoo-Duk Choi,  Ju-Sik Yun,  Sang-Yun Song,  In-Jae Oh, 
  • Pages: 508-511
  • First Published: 25 February 2016