Adjuvant therapy for a 3.9-cm adenocarcinoma of the lung.

ABSTRACT: After routine staging tests, including a FDG-PET scan and MRI of the brain, a 59-year-old mother of four, never smoker, undergoes uncomplicated right lower lobectomy of the lung to remove a 3.9 cm adenocarcinoma with visceral pleural invasion (pIB,T2N0M0). Should she receive adjuvant chemotherapy? If so, what drug, dose, and schedule?

SUBMITTER: Heist R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3868419 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature