Over the last years, respiratory diseases represent a clinical concern, being included among
the leading causes of death in the world due to the lack of effective lung therapies, mainly …

Lung cancer is the second most prevalent and the deadliest among all cancer types.
Chemotherapy is recommended for lung cancers to control tumor growth and to prolong …

Background Correctly staging lung cancer is important because the treatment options and
the prognosis differ significantly by stage. Several noninvasive imaging studies including …

Study objectives To perform a prospective comparison of direct real-time endobronchial
ultrasound (EBUS)-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA), positron emission …

During the staging process of lung cancer, accurate mediastinal lymph node staging is one
of the important factors which affect patient management. The purpose of the current study …

Background and Objective: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for 80–85% of all
patients with lung cancer and 5-year relative overall survival (OS) rate is less than 20%, so …

Background: The reported accuracy of transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) for
mediastinal staging in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) varies widely. We performed a …

Study objectives: The aim of our study was to compare the diagnostic yield of two
bronchoscopic procedures: endobronchial ultrasound-driven transbronchial biopsy (EBUS …

Objective: Lobectomy is the standard of care for stage IA lung cancer. Some small
retrospective studies have suggested similar results after limited resection for tumors≤ 2 cm …

Objective The purpose of this study was to measure the extent to which geographic
residency status and the social environment are associated with disease stage at diagnosis …