A cancer staging primer: Lung

Lung cancer staging

During this interactive hands-on workshop the participants will view complete imaging examinations (CT of chest, abdomen, brain, MRI of brain, chest, adrenals, musculoskeletal system, PET-CT, bone scintigraphy etc.) on workstations in a clinical routine setting and discuss findings with two tutors. Cases will include those with typical findings as well as pitfalls and problems. Particular atten...

Staging of lung cancer.

arl in the history of thoracic surgery, attempts were made to classify patients as to the extent of disease, in order to avoid unnecessary surgery. Evarts A. Graham,1 the surgeon who first successfully removed a carcinomatous lung in 1933, listed in 1944 the following signs of inoperabiity: (1) the presence of a bloody pleural effusion; (2) paralysis of the ipsilateral hemidiaphragm; (3) paraly...

Staging of Lung Cancer

The morphology of the tumor and the anatomic extent of the disease are important factors influencing treatment selection and ultimately survival for patients with lung cancer. The American Joint Committee TNM system provides a method for consistent reproducible description of the primary tumor (T), the status of the regional lymph nodes (N), and the presence or absence of distant metastasis (M)...

Lung cancer staging: a physiological update.

The tumour-node metastasis (TNM) classification system is anatomically based. We investigated whether the addition of simple physiological variables, age and body mass index (BMI), would affect survival curves, i.e. a composite anatomical and physiological staging system. We retrospectively analysed a prospectively validated thoracic surgery database (n = 1981). Cox multivariate analysis was pe...

PETCT in lung cancer staging