Cancer Treatment Reviews
Volume 30, Issue 7 , Pages 661-664 , November 2004

Adjuvant chemotherapy with uracil–tegafur prolongs overall survival in people with primary adenocarcinoma of the lung: Abstracted from: Kato H, Ichinose Y, Ohta M, et al. A randomized trial of adjuvant chemotherapy with uracil–tegafur for adenocarcinoma of the lung. N Engl J Med 2004;350:1713–21.

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 Sources of funding: This study was supported by Taiho Pharmaceutical Company, Tokyo, Japan.

☆☆ For Correspondence: Yukito Ichinose, Department of Thoracic Oncology, National Kyushu Cancer Center, Notame, Minami-ku, Fukuoka, Japan. E-mail: yichinos@nk-cc.go.jp.

☆☆☆ Abstract provided by Bazian Ltd, London.

PII: S0305-7372(04)00145-8

doi: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2004.08.003

Cancer Treatment Reviews
Volume 30, Issue 7 , Pages 661-664 , November 2004