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, the concordance of cTNM and pTNM was 60%. 22.6% of patients were upstaged after resection, . The difference was more evident in patients with T2a tumors.
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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
Submitted by: Mark Ferguson
Source: Annals of Thoracic Surgery
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Author(s): David Jonathan Heineman, Martijn Geert ten Berge, Johannes Marlene Daniels, Michaël Ignatius Versteegh, Perla Jacqueline Marang-van de Mheen, Michael Wilhelmus Wouters, Wilhelmina Hendrika Schreurs
