… Objective: The European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) has … -node staging guidelines
(LNSGs) for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) based on the introduction of new staging …

… lung cancer (SCLC) represents 10–15% of all lung cancers and has a poor prognosis.
Thoracic … ) is the standard of care for localised disease (stage I−III, limited-stage, LS). Definitive …

… A database query for primary clinical stage I or stage II non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
at high-volume centers from 2009 to 2013 identified 1,220 robotic lobectomies and 12,378 …

… (AJCC) in 2009 in the seventh editions of their staging manuals for lung cancer.17, 18 They
… IASLC Staging Manual in Thoracic Oncology and the IASLC Staging Handbook in Thoracic …

… assess the accuracy of FDG-PET for preoperative staging of thoracic lymph nodes in … of
FDG-PET imaging versus CT scanning in lymph node staging of non-small cell lung cancer …

… Patients with known or suspected lung cancer (clinical stage I) were included in this study. …
Previous thoracic operations, incomplete fissures, and pleural adhesions were not …

… Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee to
develop recommendations to identify second primary lung cancers. The process entailed review …

… pleural and mediastinal structures can impede correct T staging in 18 F-FDG PET/CT [15,
16… alternative to PET/CT for cancer staging [17, 18]. For the thoracic staging of NSCLC, a pilot …

… Nodal stations in the chest were identified according to the mapping system of the
American Thoracic Society. The standard of reference was histopathology for the tumor …

… Thoracic tumors and especially lung cancer continue to be a … with these cancers is bleak and
depends on the stage of the … the workup and staging of patients with thoracic tumors but has …