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The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: The New Database to Inform the Eighth Edition of the TNM Classification of Lung Cancer
The analyses of the retrospective database of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), consisting of more than 81,000 evaluable patients diagnosed with lung cancer between 1990 and 2000, formed the basis of recommendations to the Union for International Cancer Control and the American Joint Committee on Cancer for the revision of the sixth edition of the tumor, node, and metastasis (TNM) classification of lung cancer. However, despite the large number of patients, not all descriptors could be validated.Early Stage Lung Cancer: Progress in the Last 40 Years
Surgery remains the cornerstone in the early-stage non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treatment, but a lot of efforts have been focused on the use of systemic therapy in this setting, on technological advances in thoracic surgery and radiotherapy, and on better application of local therapeutic approaches to improve the survival rates in these patients.
