Locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer: the place of specialist thoracic surgery in the multidisciplinary team.

ABSTRACT: One reason that lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide, is that surgical intervention is highly dependent on earlier tumor stage and good patient condition. As large proportion of cases are already metastatic at presentation and many are locally advanced, curative surgery is only possible in a minority of fit patients. Increasing the number of patients achieving complete resection is one of the avenues to increase overall survival using our existing technology. In the past, complex cases may have been sporadically discussed between various specialists in order to achieve better outcomes. More recently, the idea of discussing those cases on a routine basis, rather than an accident of geography or referral pattern, gave rise to the multidisciplinary team. Lung cancer

SUBMITTER: Al Zaidi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7481639 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature