So using observational data from the large NCDB dataset can help address the questions about surgical treatment that providers and patients are asking today.

Sharon Lum

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The patients who had surgery were the ones who had better responses to chemotherapy, probably had less metastatic disease and were probably healthier, so maybe they lived longer because of surgery, or maybe they would have lived longer anyway, and the study shows that doctors know how to identify patients who will do well.