Thoracic Surgery

Non-small cell lung cancer

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What are the clear criteria for unresectability in locally advanced NSCLC patients, other than medical or anatomic?

Medical inoperability is clearly defined, anatomical resectability is also pretty much clear (invasion of trachea/carina/esophagus, etc). But what abo...

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For stage III NSCLC treated with definitive intent chemoRT, how do you decide to proceed with surgery vs consolidation immunotherapy?

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For oligometastatic NSCLC that would be otherwise considered stage 3, would you consider consolidative immunotherapy with durvalumab after definitive treatment for both the primary and oligometastatic site?

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Do you ever recommend PORT or chemoRT rather than chemotherapy alone for NSCLC with adverse features other than positive margins or N2 disease?

For example, would a + vascular margin, extranodal extension of N1 disease, translobar disease, or high risk histologies (large cell neuroendocrine, s...

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Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2015-09-01

Postoperative Radiation Therapy Is Associated With Improved Overall Survival in Incompletely Resected Stage II and III Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer.

The New England journal of medicine, 2018-12-13

Overall Survival with Durvalumab after Chemoradiotherapy in Stage III NSCLC.

Lancet (London, England), 2009-08-01

Radiotherapy plus chemotherapy with or without surgical resection for stage III non-small-cell lung cancer: a phase III randomised controlled trial.

J. Clin. Oncol., 2015 Nov 02

Phase III Study of Surgery Versus Definitive Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy Boost in Patients With Resectable Stage IIIA(N2) and Selected IIIB Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer After Induction Chemotherapy and Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy (ESPATUE).

Thoracic Surgery

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