Scientific Findings: Special reports on lung cancer from the 2004 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology Annual Meetings (ASTRO)

	Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Followed by Preoperative Radiochemotherapy (hfRTCT) Plus Surgery or Surgery Plus Postoperative Radiotherapy in Stage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Results of a Randomized Phase III Trial of the German Lung Cancer Cooperative Group
	A multicenter, phase III randomized trial for stage IIIb/IV NSCLC of weekly paclitaxel and carboplatin vs. standard paclitaxel and carboplatin given every three weeks, followed by weekly paclitaxel
	A prospective randomized trial of adjuvant vinorelbine and cisplatin in completely resected stage IB and II non-small cell lung cancer. Intergroup JBR10
	Randomized clinical trial of adjuvant chemotherapy with paclitaxel and carboplatin following resection in Stage IB non-small cell lung cancer: Report of Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) Protocol 9633
	Randomized phase II study of cetuximab in combination with cisplatin (C) and vinorelbine (V) vs. CV alone in the first-line treatment of patients (pts) with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-expressing advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) : 'the "LUCAS" study
	Results of a phase III trial of erlotinib (OSI-774) combined with cisplatin and gemcitabine (GC) chemotherapy in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
	Traditional versus up-front 18-FDG PET staging of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): A Dutch Co-operative randomized study

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