Staging Lung Cancer: Current Controversies and Strategies
A consistent approach to staging is required for the rational management of lung cancer. This paper was prepared at the request of the Standards Committee of the Canadian Thoracic Society, and reviews and discusses the relative merits of the available methods of staging. Whichever methods are chosen...
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| description | A consistent approach to staging is required for the rational management of lung cancer. This paper was prepared at the request of the Standards Committee of the Canadian Thoracic Society, and reviews and discusses the relative merits of the available methods of staging. Whichever methods are chosen by a particular institution, the following points must be stressed. No patient can be considered automatically "unresectable" when chest radiography and/ or computed tomography demonstrate adenopathy or only suggest local invasion. Clinical and/or radiographical evidence suggesting extensive local or metastatic disease should be evaluated as completely as possible before subjecting the patient to a possible "nontherapeutic" thoracotomy. Finally, in some cases thoracotomy is required to decide whether the lesion is "completely" resectable. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3f7a9ad1261c4dffa9b74bbb4ae996832025-08-20T03:35:53ZengWileyCanadian Respiratory Journal1198-22411997-01-014629730510.1155/1997/742865Staging Lung Cancer: Current Controversies and StrategiesRiyad Karmy-Jones0Robert H Hyland1Joseph W Lewis2Paul Kvale3Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USADepartment of Medicine, Wellesley Central Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaDivision of Thoracic Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USADivisions of Thoracic Surgery and Pulmonary Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, USAA consistent approach to staging is required for the rational management of lung cancer. This paper was prepared at the request of the Standards Committee of the Canadian Thoracic Society, and reviews and discusses the relative merits of the available methods of staging. Whichever methods are chosen by a particular institution, the following points must be stressed. No patient can be considered automatically "unresectable" when chest radiography and/ or computed tomography demonstrate adenopathy or only suggest local invasion. Clinical and/or radiographical evidence suggesting extensive local or metastatic disease should be evaluated as completely as possible before subjecting the patient to a possible "nontherapeutic" thoracotomy. Finally, in some cases thoracotomy is required to decide whether the lesion is "completely" resectable.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1997/742865 |
| spellingShingle | Riyad Karmy-Jones Robert H Hyland Joseph W Lewis Paul Kvale Staging Lung Cancer: Current Controversies and Strategies Canadian Respiratory Journal |
| title | Staging Lung Cancer: Current Controversies and Strategies |
| title_full | Staging Lung Cancer: Current Controversies and Strategies |
| title_fullStr | Staging Lung Cancer: Current Controversies and Strategies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Staging Lung Cancer: Current Controversies and Strategies |
| title_short | Staging Lung Cancer: Current Controversies and Strategies |
| title_sort | staging lung cancer current controversies and strategies |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1997/742865 |
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