Is it time to revise the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer definitions of completeness of lung cancer resection?

Ramón Rami-Porta; John G Edwards; Raymond U Osarogiagbon

doi:10.21037/tcr-22-2426

Is it time to revise the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer definitions of completeness of lung cancer resection?

Transl Cancer Res. 2022 Dec;11(12):4474-4478. doi: 10.21037/tcr-22-2426.

Authors

Ramón Rami-Porta^{1

2}, John G Edwards³, Raymond U Osarogiagbon^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Universitari Mútua Terrassa, University of Barcelona, Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain.
² Network of Centres for Biomedical Research in Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES) Lung Cancer Group, Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK.
⁴ Thoracic Oncology Research Group, Baptist Cancer Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
⁵ Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Program, Baptist Cancer Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Complete resection; International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC); incomplete resection; lung cancer surgery; uncertain resection.

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