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Kaoru Kubota

Researcher at Nippon Medical School

Publications -  298
Citations -  18879

Kaoru Kubota is an academic researcher from Nippon Medical School. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lung cancer & Chemotherapy. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 275 publications receiving 14448 citations.

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The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: Proposals for Revision of the TNM Stage Groupings in the Forthcoming (Eighth) Edition of the TNM Classification for Lung Cancer.

Peter Goldstraw, +142 more
TL;DR: The methods used to evaluate the resultant Stage groupings and the proposals put forward for the 8th edition of the TNM Classification for lung cancer due to be published late 2016 are described.
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Pembrolizumab versus chemotherapy for previously untreated, PD-L1-expressing, locally advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (KEYNOTE-042): a randomised, open-label, controlled, phase 3 trial

Tony Mok, +245 more
- 04 May 2019 - 
TL;DR: Overall survival was significantly longer in the pembrolizumab group than in the chemotherapy group in all three TPS populations, and the benefit-to-risk profile suggests that first-line pembrology monotherapy can be extended as first line therapy for locally advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer patients with sensitising EGFR or ALK translocation.