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An international epidemiological analysis of young patients with non-small cell lung cancer (AduJov-CLICaP).
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Nov 2017
Corrales-Rodríguez Luis, Arrieta Oscar, Mas Luis, Báez-Saldaña Renata, Castillo-Fernández Omar, Blais Normand, Martín Claudio, Juárez Melissa, Khanna Priyanka, Ramos-Esquivel Allan, Bacon Ludwing, Rojas Leonardo, Wills Beatriz, Oblitas George, Pérez María Angelina, Cuello Mauricio, Cardona Andrés Felipe
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BACKGROUND: A proportion of patients with NSCLC is diagnosed at 40 years or younger. These patients tend to be never-smokers, usually present with stage IV adenocarcinoma, and have somatic genomic alterations. Few studies have documented and analyzed epidemiological characteristics of this population. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We performed an international epidemiological analysis of 389 young patients with NSCLC....
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