Daniel P Steinfort, Gargi Kothari, Neil Wallace, Nicholas Hardcastle, Kanishka Rangamuwa, Edith M T Dieleman, Percy Lee, Peixuan Li, Julie A Simpson, Shaun Yo, Farzad Bashirdazeh, Phan Nguyen, Barton R Jennings, David Fielding, Laurence Crombag, Louis B Irving, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Jouke T Annema, David E Ost, Shankar Siva
BACKGROUND: Systematic mediastinal lymph node staging by endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) improves accuracy of staging in patients with early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, patients with locally advanced NSCLC commonly undergo only selective lymph node sampling. This study aimed to determine the proportion of patients with locally advanced NSCLC in whom systematic endoscopic mediastinal staging identified PET-occult lymph node metastases, and to describe the consequences of PET-occult disease on radiotherapy planning...
March 11, 2024: Lancet Respiratory Medicine