Summary of Key Points • Lung cancer is increasingly understood at the molecular level; N-of-1 trials are becoming more relevant with the use of biomarker assessment and targeted therapies. •…
Summary of Key Points • The best palliative outcomes are obtained when palliative care is involved early in advanced lung cancer. • Integration of palliative care early in the advanced…
Summary of Key Points † Deceased. • To describe the functions of advocacy. • To describe how lung cancer advocacy groups accomplish their goals. • To describe how they can…
Summary of Key Points • Health services research aims to improve the outcomes to treatment for lung cancer by optimizing the accessibility, quality, and efficiency of treatment programs. • Achieving…
Summary of Key Points • Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) is recommended in treatment guidelines as the nonoperative therapy of choice for early-stage nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). • SABR can…
Abstract Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) was first described with use of a modified Bovie knife in the liver in animal studies published in 1990. Subsequent descriptions of successful ablation of liver…
Keywords chest wall reconstruction, chest wall tumors, complete (R0) resection, lung cancer extended resections, lymph node dissection, mediastinal nodes, non-small cell lung cancers, Pancoast tumors Summary of Key Points…
Abstract The present chapter presents the different treatment approaches for locally advanced non small cell lung cancer including radiation alone, targeted agents, combining chemotherapy and radiotherapy, the trimodality approach including…
Summary of Key Points • Radiotherapy plays a central role in the treatment of lung cancer for patients in both the palliative and curative settings. • Major advances in the…
Keywords lobectomy, lung cancer, pneumonectomy, segmentectomy, surgery, wedge resection Summary of Key Points • With the realization that many more lung cancers are being detected, which may not only…
