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

For a long time lung cancer was associated with a fatalistic approach by healthcare
professionals. In recent years, advances in imaging, improved diagnostic techniques and …

Lung cancer staging is a foundation of patient care, informing management decisions and
prognosis. This comprehensive overview of the current 8th edition American Joint …

Lung cancer has increased in incidence throughout the twentieth century and is now the
most common cancer in the Western World. It has a poor prognosis, only 10–15% of patients …

In patients with lung cancer, the relationship between the anatomic extent of the disease at
diagnosis and survival duration is well known. This relationship is the basis for the staging …

Staging is the quantitative assessment of malignant disease and allows logical groupings of
patients with a similar extent of disease for prognostic, therapeutic, and analytic purposes. In …

Abstract The new the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)/the
American Thoracic Society (ATS)/the European Respiratory Society (ERS) pathologic …

The necessity for a compulsive attitude toward preoperativeassessment of lung cancer is to
be emphasized, since rational treatmentand prognosis depend largely on the stage of …

The staging of lung cancer is a continuously progressing field, with advances in technology
not only improving prognostic accuracy, but fundamentally changing pre-operative …

Accurate staging and restaging of primary tumour and mediastinal nodes in patients with
lung cancer is of significant importance. For primary tumours, computed tomography (CT) …