General Internal Medicine

Non-small cell lung cancer

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How do you define an adequate EBUS when staging NSCLC?

Is there a minimum standard for which stations to sample? Does lymph node size affect your recommendations?

Do you do recommend further mediastinal staging for patients with SCLC or inoperable NSCLC with N1 disease on PET?

If a patient clearly has N1 disease with high SUV on PET, do you routinely recommend EBUS or mediastinoscopy to evaluate for N2 disease?

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What are best practices for engaging with multidisciplinary colleagues to ensure patients with earlier stage NSCLC are being appropriately considered for novel adjuvant therapies?

How are your teams effectively evaluating and counseling patients to ensure they are prepared for potential extended adjuvant treatment approaches? Is...

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How long do you continue surveillance imaging for NSCLC after definitive treatment?

NCCN recommends annual CT surveillance indefinitely after year 5, but I’m curious how many physicians continue and for how long?

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Papers discussed in this category

Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys., 2010-06-01

Selective nodal irradiation on basis of (18)FDG-PET scans in limited-disease small-cell lung cancer: a prospective study.

Thorac Cancer, 2017 Apr 24

Relationship between endobronchial ultrasound-guided (EBUS)-transbronchial needle aspiration utility and computed tomography staging, node size at EBUS, and positron emission tomography scan node standard uptake values: A retrospective analysis.

The New England journal of medicine, 2011-08-04

Reduced lung-cancer mortality with low-dose computed tomographic screening.

Chest, 2016-03

Technical Aspects of Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report.

Chest, 2008 Feb 08

Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration of lymph nodes in the radiologically and positron emission tomography-normal mediastinum in patients with lung cancer.

JAMA, 2010 Nov 24

Mediastinoscopy vs endosonography for mediastinal nodal staging of lung cancer: a randomized trial.

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