welcomes you to the new, improved website!A multidisciplinary panel of lung cancer experts, facilitated by the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the European Respiratory Society, developed practical recommendations for assessing patients’ fitness for curative intent treatments for lung cancer by formulating four population, intervention, comparison and outcomes (PICO) questions and seven complementary narrative questions. The panel utilized systematic literature search and risk assessment tools to evaluate the evidence and created recommendations covering pulmonary function tests, split lung function values, exercise tests, cardiologic testing, and the role of prehabilitation, sublobar resections, risk scores and comorbidities in patient selection.
European Respiratory Society and European Society of Thoracic Surgeons Clinical Practice Guideline on Fitness for Curative Intent Treatment of Lung Cancer
Submitted by: Joel Dunning
Source: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
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Author(s): Alessandro Brunelli, Georgia Hardavella, Rudolf M Huber, Thierry Berghmans, Armin Frille, Maria Rodriguez, Ilona Tietzova, Lieven Depypere, Riccardo Asteggiano, Tim Batchelor, Adrien Costantini, Dirk De Ruysscher, Valerie Durieux, Corinne Faivre-Finn, Mark K Ferguson, Daniel Langer, Nandor Marczin, Blin Nagavci, Nuria Novoa , Cecilia Pompili, Janette Rawlinson, Annemiek Snoeckx, Thomy Tonia, Wouter H van Geffen, Clare Williams, Edward J Caruana, Pinar Akin Kabalak, Ulrich Mansmann, Vincent Fallet, Diego Kauffmann-Guerrero, Marianne Paesmans, Amani Al Tawil, Nora Alhannoush, Andrew W Creamer, Ismini Kourouni, Torsten Gerriet Blum
