NIH R01 · 2024
Comparative-Effectiveness of Pretreatment Lung Cancer Nodal Staging
ABSTRACT Our goal is to reduce diagnostic and treatment errors, improve survival, and increase the value of care for lung cancer patients by improving our ability to select patients who benefit from a pretreatment lymph node biopsy. Accurately determining whether cancer has spread to lymph nodes and the extent of spread (a process called nodal staging) is critical for appropriate treatment selection. Understaging can lead to omission of chemotherapy or unnecessary surgery. Overstaging can lead to unnecessary chemotherapy and omission of surgery. Diagnostic and treatment errors negatively impact survival. These errors commonly occur when using imaging alone for nodal staging. A biopsy can…
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