… neoplasms, staging. Preoperative tumor staging in patients with non-small cell lung cancer
is important … The TNM staging system, revised in 1997, is the most widely accepted and used …

… 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 …

… Twelve of the 50 patients were diagnosed with lung cancer. Thoracic staging was performed
… Our initial experience has indicated that thoracoscopic staging for lung cancer is a safe and …

… revision of the TNM classification of lung cancer, to be published in … lung cancer staging,
and computed tomography scans had been widely used all over the world to stage lung cancer…

… Typically, a combination of imaging studies is utilized to evaluate a given patient with
lung cancer (Table 1). The role of plain radiographs in lung cancer staging should not be …

… From the perspective of the thoracic surgeon, the primary issue in the care of patients
who have non–small-cell lung cancer is a determination of the stage of their disease. Stage …

… of Lung Cancer (IASLC) to determine whether the current international lung cancer staging
… Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC) and American Joint Commission on Cancer (AJCC) …

… the techniques available for clinical staging, principally the routine use … lung cancer staging
evolve with little internal validation and no external validation of the descriptors or the stage …

… in patients with clinical early-stage lung cancer. Naruke et al 18 and Fujiu et al 15 showed
that when N2 metastases were found in patients with clinical stage I NSCLC, almost all were …

… Lung Cancer Staging Project” 3 and was responsible for creating the 7th edition of the TNM
staging system for lung cancer… 7th edition of the TNM staging system for lung cancer. The 7th …