Sarcopenia is a potential factor for optimized treatment selection for elderly patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer

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Yukinori Matsuo. J Thorac Dis. 2019 Mar.

. 2019 Mar;11(Suppl 3):S443-S445.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.11.44.

¹ Department of Radiation Oncology and Image-Applied Therapy, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

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Conflicts of Interest: The author has no conflicts of interest to declare.

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