… of the lung is summarized in table 3. The work of the Task Force on Lung Cancer introduced
order into the staging of lung cancer, … The T and M characteristics of the staging system have …

… Diagnosis and clinical staging of lung cancer are fundamental to planning therapy. The
techniques for clinical staging, ie. anatomic and metabolic imaging, endoscopies and minimally …

… -small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) TNM staging system was … for the Staging of Lung Cancer
(IASLC) Lung Cancer Staging … regarding the clinical staging of small cell lung cancer in the …

… toward preoperativeassessment of lung cancer is to be … with lung cancer is based on
completeintraoperative staging, … has been shown to improve the quality of staging orsurvival. …

… with lung cancer to have received this type of computerized analysis; the extensive clinical
… , documented, and classified; the system of clinical staging is a “timeless” method of …

… is recognized as a truer reflection of a tumor’s spread than any form of clinical staging
based on preoperative investigations. The “gold standard” for achieving pathological …

… The accuracy of clinical staging in lung cancer may be evaluated by … staging. The objective
of this paper is to compare these two staging methods in a series of 2,994 lung cancer cases …

… Staging Committee in 1997, collecting data on lung cancer … later revisions of the TNM lung
cancer staging. IASCL has been … UICC for lung cancer staging (4). The 7 th edition of the TNM …

… in survival patterns between the clinically staged and surgical-pathologic-staged patients.
The outcome for patients with small cell cancer according to clinical stage shows that the …

… clinical evaluation remains the most important starting point in the work-up of a patient who
is suspected of having lung cancer. … staging algorithm for NSCLC and small cell lung cancer (…