Pretreatment Invasive Nodal Staging in Lung Cancer: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs Among Academic and Community Physicians.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pretreatment invasive nodal staging is paramount for appropriate treatment decisions in non-small cell lung cancer. Despite guidelines recommending when to perform staging, many studies suggest that invasive nodal staging is underused. Attitudes and barriers to guideline-recommended staging are unclear. The National Lung Cancer Roundtable initiated this study to better understand the factors associated with guideline-adherent nodal staging.

Research question

What are the knowledge gaps, attitudes, and beliefs of thoracic surgeons and pulmonologists about invasive nodal staging? What are the barriers to guideline-recommended staging?

Study design and methods

A web-based survey of a random sample of pulmonologists and thoracic surgeons identified as members o

SUBMITTER: Henderson LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9069181 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature