… Table 2 shows the distribution of histologic types in patients with stage III lung cancer.
Although the trend, already reported by a number of studies, is towards adenocarcinoma …

… Study Group 53 retrospectively analyzed 163 patients with stage III disease from their
postoperative treatment protocols and found that the survival rate was worse for patients with …

… Multimodality therapy is preferable in most subsets of patients with stage III lung cancer.
Variability in the patients included in randomized trials limits the ability to combine results across …

… the heterogenous stage subsets within the stage III designation, … of patients with advanced
stage III disease. The potential role … The other major stage III subgroup has a minimal disease …

… a treatment plan for patients with suspected stage III lung cancer. Evidence of metastasis, if
… clinical stage III lung cancer had unexpected stage IV disease detected by FDG-PET scan. …

… stage lung cancer, and the use of radiation therapy for primary treatment of early stage lung
cancer … radiation therapy administered to patients with completely resected stage III NSCLC. …

… It is uncertain how many cycles of chemotherapy are optimal in treatment of patients with
stage III disease. The American Society of Clinical Oncology guidelines recommend two to four …

… Stage 111 Operable Tumors The anatomical subsets of patients with Stage I11 nonsmall
cell lung cancer that we consider operable fall into two major classifications: patients with T3 …

… Locally advanced NSCLC in this manuscript is defined as stage III NSCLC … of Lung Cancer
(IASLC)/ Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) TNM staging classification. Stage III …

… Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Majority of newly diagnosed
lung cancers are non-small cell lung cancer (… Patients with locally advanced stage III NSCLC …