Management of Stage II Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Pancoast Tumors Matthew Steliga Ashish Patel Ara Vaporciyan STAGE II TUMORS Lung cancer remains the single most deadly cancer in the…
Management of Ground-Glass Opacity Lesions Hisao Asamura Recently, smaller and fainter nodules are being found on computed tomography (CT) imaging.1,2 This is partly a result of the markedly improved quality…
The International Staging System for Lung Cancer Peter Goldstraw Over the last 40 years, the International Staging System (ISS) has become an essential tool for all those involved in the…
Extent of Resection for Stage I Lung Cancer Paul C. Lee Nasser K. Altorki HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The surgical management of lung cancer has undergone tremendous evolution since the first case…
Minimally Invasive Techniques for the Management of Lung Cancer Robert J. McKenna Jr. The hope for video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) treatment of lung cancer is that it would reduce morbidity,…
Surgical Evaluation of the Mediastinum Frank C. Detterbeck At first glance, surgical mediastinal staging may appear to be a mundane and lackluster topic, extensively reviewed with little new information to…
Conventional Imaging of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Leslie E. Quint Naama R. Bogot Sheila C. Rankin Bronchogenic carcinoma is generally first imaged, and often first detected, by chest radiography. Chest…
Bronchoscopy in the Diagnosis and Evaluation of Lung Cancer Thomas G. Sutedja Thomas Santo Michael Zervos Felix J.F. Herth Rigid optics to examine the central airways were designed by Gustav…
Positron Emission Tomography in Lung Cancer Johan Vansteenkiste Christophe Dooms Sigrid Stroobants BASIC PRINCIPLES AND TECHNICAL ASPECTS Positron emission tomography (PET) is the most selective and sensitive (picomolar to nanomolar…
Gender-Related Differences in Lung Cancer Silvia Novello Julie R. Brahmer Laura P. Stabile Jill M. Siegfried For several decades, lung cancer has been mainly viewed as a malignant disease affecting…
