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Surgery for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer
1Thoracic Department, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, University of Paris, Paris, France. thorax@imm.fr
Seminars in Surgical Oncology
|September 26, 2003
Abstract:
Advanced stage non-small lung cancers are currently considered unresectable. However numerous series on patients with locally advanced disease treated by surgery have been published. Surgery alone or induction treatments followed by surgery achieve long-term outcomes in an encouraging proportion of selected patients with T4 disease, despite the high rate of morbidity associated with technically demanding procedures.