… , surgical risk increases in patients over 65 years old. Therefore, surgical procedures for lung
cancer … Many clinicians avoid surgery, or minimise surgical procedures on the basis of age …

… The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw advances in thoracic surgery as surgeons
explored surgical methods, including varying degrees of pulmonary resections, to treat …

… Lung cancer represents the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide. Despite
improvements in preoperative staging, surgical techniques, neoadjuvant/adjuvant options and …

… Surgical resection of lung cancer may be performed by a variety of operative procedures …
excellent long term survival results with early stage lung cancer and attribute this to the removal …

… -guided sampling techniques, and their role in the diagnosis and staging of lung cancer are
… with EUS-FNA will likely replace more invasive surgical techniques for tissue acquisition. …

… If mediastinoscopy had been performed only when results from EUS plus EBUS were negative,
this surgical procedure would have been avoided in 28% (39/138) of patients in this study…

… for specific stage groups, new techniques for the planning and administration of radiotherapy,
and new surgical approaches to assess and reduce the risks of surgical treatment. …

… tyrosine-kinase inhibitors and other advances in treatment including minimally invasive
surgical techniques that have been shown to improve the survival of lung cancer patients (69). …

… surgery for NSCLC stages … lung cancer managed by resection has increased from 23% in
1960 1 to about 54% by 1990. However, this increase is not due to improved surgical technique…

… technique for the evaluation and staging of patients with both small cell and non-small cell
lung cancer. … who 1) underwent surgical resection for stage I non-small cell lung cancer, 2) …