PMID- 21666558
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110929
LR  - 20110613
IS  - 0026-4733 (Print)
IS  - 0026-4733 (Linking)
VI  - 66
IP  - 3
DP  - 2011 Jun
TI  - Imaging and lung cancer.
PG  - 215-22
AB  - Lung cancer remains the most common cause of cancer-related mortality in 
      Scotland, accounting for 28.9% of all cancer deaths in 2007. Current guidelines 
      recommend assessment of patient fitness and operability by a multidisciplinary 
      team when selecting management options. Two of the most important prognostic 
      markers are the stage of disease and ECOG performance status. In 1996, the 
      International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) launched a 
      worldwide TNM staging project to create international databases that would be 
      used to continue the excellent efforts of Dr. Cliff Mountain, who pioneered this 
      approach to lung cancer staging in 1973. Successive iterations of tumor, nodule, 
      metastasis (TNM) staging for lung cancer have addressed shortcomings identified 
      by the oncology community. Similarly, the IASLC recognized that it is important 
      that further revisions continue to be made to ensure that the international 
      staging system for lung cancer remains fit for its purpose. The last work of the 
      International Staging Committee (ISC) was the conduct of the study that informed 
      the seventh edition of the international staging system for lung cancer, in 2010. 
      This review of image and staging in non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), includes 
      a summary of the different noninvasive tests currently available for staging non 
      small cell lung cancer.
FAU - Younes, R
AU  - Younes R
AD  - Department of Surgery, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 
      rnyounes@yahoo.co
FAU - Abrao, F
AU  - Abrao F
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PL  - Italy
TA  - Minerva Chir
JT  - Minerva chirurgica
JID - 0400726
SB  - IM
MH  - Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/*diagnosis
MH  - Humans
MH  - Lung Neoplasms/*diagnosis
MH  - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MH  - Positron-Emission Tomography
MH  - Tomography, X-Ray Computed
EDAT- 2011/06/15 06:00
MHDA- 2011/10/01 06:00
CRDT- 2011/06/14 06:00
PHST- 2011/06/14 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/06/15 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/10/01 06:00 [medline]
AID - R06115503, [pii]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Minerva Chir. 2011 Jun;66(3):215-22.