Abstract
I. INTRODUCTION No ns mall Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) accounts for approximately three quarters of all lung cancer his to logies. Surgical resection is the preferred treatment and approximately 50,000 operations are performed in the United States alone each year [1]. The over all prognosis for resected NSCLC is poor with fewer than a third of patients who undergo resection still alive 5 year s later [2].
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Artificial Neural Networks in Cancer Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Patient Management |
Editors | Raouf N.G. Naguib, Gajanan V. Sherbet |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 39-54 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781420036381 |
ISBN (Print) | 0849396921, 9780849396922 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2001 |