Evaluation of short-term and long-term efficacy of surgical and non-surgical treatment in patients with early-stage small cell lung cancer: A comparative study

Abstract

These findings indicate that for patients with early-stage SCLC, better scores in effectiveness rate, disease progression, and 1-, 3-, and 5-year survival rates were observed in patients who underwent surgery followed by adjuvant chemoradiotherapy when compared with patients without surgical treatment.