Lung Cancer - Staging

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Lung Cancer in France

January 27, 2021 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

An open-access detailed editorial from the official periodical of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer

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JANS Article

Lung Cancer in France

January 27, 2021 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

An open-access detailed editorial from the official periodical of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer

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Ethnic Disparities in PET/CT Utilization at Diagnosis of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

March 18, 2020 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

The authors examined the SEER database to assess racial disparities in use of PET for lung cancer staging 2007-2015 and subsequent one-year survival. Blacks (OR 0.54) and Hispanics (OR 0.72)...

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Long-Term Follow-Up of Ground-Glass Nodules After 5 Years of Stability

August 20, 2019 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Interesting follow-up study of 208 pulmonary ground -glass opacities in 160 subjects, with a yield of three adenocardinomas.

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Unforeseen N2 Disease After Negative Endosonography Findings With or Without Confirmatory Mediastinoscopy in Resectable Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

May 20, 2019 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

Rates of unforeseen N2 disease were similar between nodal staging by EBUS and mediastinoscopy, but mediastinoscopy had a complication rate of 6%.

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Initial experience in uniportal subxiphoid video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for major lung resections

January 2, 2017 | Marco NardiniBronze Contributor

There is a rediscovered interest in use of a subxiphoid incision to perform lung surgery. This work follows a review of 105 lobectomies published in March 2016 in the Journal...

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Clinical Staging of Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in the Netherlands—Need for Improvement in an Era With Expanding Nonsurgical Treatment Options: Data From the Dutch Lung Surgery Audit

October 31, 2016 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

The authors examined the concordance of clinical and pathological staging using prospectively collected data from the Dutch Lung Surgery Audit, examining patients with clinical stage I disease. Among 1,555 patients,...

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Nodal Upstaging Is More Common with Thoracotomy than with VATS During Lobectomy for Early-Stage Lung Cancer: An Analysis from the National Cancer Data Base

January 31, 2016 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

Whether open and VATS lobectomy for lung cancer result in similar nodal assessment is unclear. The authors compared rates of nodal upstaging for nearly 17,000 patients in the National Cancer...

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The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: Proposals for Revision of the TNM Stage Groupings in the Forthcoming (Eighth) Edition of the TNM Classification for Lung Cancer

January 6, 2016 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

This long-awaited lung cancer staging update serves as the model for the AJCC 8 update that will be published in the near future. The primary changes involve T status and...

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IASLC proposals for changes to Lung cancer staging.

November 30, 2015 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

This is an interesting document adding the proposals for the next edition of lung cancer staging. the changes are going to be quite significant : Recommended changes are as follows:...

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Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy versus lobectomy for operable stage I non-small-cell lung cancer: a pooled analysis of two randomised trials

May 20, 2015 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

A pooled analysis of outcomes from two randomized trials involving SBRT or surgery for operable patients with clinical early stage NSCLC was performed. The number of patients was small (58...

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Endobronchial Ultrasound versus Mediastinoscopy for Mediastinal Nodal Staging of Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

January 29, 2015 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

There is growing recognition of the utility of EBUS in staging NSCLC. In this study EBUS and mediastinoscopy were performed in 127 patients requiring mediastinal staging for clinical N1-3 NSCLC....

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Identification of Independent Primary Tumors and Intrapulmonary Metastases Using DNA Rearrangements in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer

November 11, 2014 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

Differentiating a primary lung cancer from an intrapulmonary metastasis can be challenging. The authors developed a lineage test using whole genome amplification and next-generation sequencing to identify breakpoints in known...

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