… of diagnosis of lung cancer depends on the type of lung cancer (small cell lung cancer or
non-small cell lung cancer [… of various modalities for the diagnosis of suspected lung cancer. …

… Lung cancers are categorized as small cell carcinoma or non–small cell carcinoma (eg, …
The diagnostic evaluation of patients with suspected lung cancer includes tissue diagnosis; a …

… from lung cancer (ie, lung cancer mortality) among individuals at elevated risk of lung cancer
who … a diagnosis of lung cancer does not provide an assessment of the impact of screening. …

… Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer … new diagnosis of lung cancer, comprising 13%
of all new cancer diagnoses, and 1.4 million died of lung cancer, which was 18% of all cancer …

… For the patient with an SPN who is not a surgical candidate and who prefers treatment, we
recommend that the diagnosis of lung cancer be confirmed by biopsy, unless contraindicated. …

Background Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a lethal disease for which there have been only
small advances in diagnosis and treatment in the past decade. Our goal was to revise the …

… trials of lung cancer screening [4–8]. … lung cancer mortality. Recent work on low-dose helical
CT [9], however, has renewed interest in the challenge of detecting early-stage lung cancer. …

… the biology of lung cancer. The … lung cancer somatic DNA mutations, chromosomal
aberrations, epigenetics, and the tumor microenvironment, and how they can advance diagnostics …

… We have developed recommendations for the management of many of the symptom complexes
that patients with lung cancer may experience: pain, dyspnea, airway obstruction, cough, …

Objectives The objective of this article is to update previous evidence-based recommendations
for evaluation and management of individuals with solid pulmonary nodules and to …