… Lung cancer resection can be performed using several surgical techniques. Video-…
thoracic surgeons. The 5-year survival rate following complete resection of lung cancer is stage …

… the definition of tumour lung node lesions and to compare the diagnostic validity of CT
and FDGPET in the staging of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). …

… were reported over a century ago for the diagnosis of pneumonia and of lung cancer even …
to access most thoracic lesions, allowing for earlier diagnosis and improved staging. The use …

… scanning to stage lung cancer: at our institution, we routinely extend the staging chest CT to
… imaging in the accurate preoperative staging of non-small cell lung cancer. The quality of the …

… in thoracic oncology because of its superiority over other imaging techniques in staging nodal
and … However, the poor anatomic detail of PET can lead to errors in diagnosis and staging. …

… Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomy is becoming the preferred surgical
procedure for early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) [1] since it was first reported by …

… thoracic radiation to chemotherapy was found to significantly improve overall survival in patients
with LS-SCLC [ 32 , 33 ] . Subsequent studies demonstrated that early thoracic … ) thoracic …

… Beyond the age of 79 years, it is unclear if there would be the same screening advantage
in detecting an early-stage lung cancer because of competing causes of mortality. Life-table …

… of early-stage lung cancer and the … in stage I and II NSCLC: general surgical care vs specialist
care; sublobar vs lobar surgical approaches to stage I lung cancer; video-assisted thoracic …

… component of the staging and treatment of lung cancers. For … of lymph node metastases in
lung cancer patients by labeling … of maps by the American Thoracic Society (ATS) 3 and to the …