Lung Cancer Staging: Imaging and Potential Pitfalls [PDF]
Diagnostics, 2023 Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in men and women in the United States. Accurate staging is needed to determine prognosis and devise effective treatment plans.
Lauren T. Erasmus +6 more
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Automatic Extraction of Lung Cancer Staging Information From Computed Tomography Reports: Deep Learning Approach [PDF]
JMIR Medical Informatics, 2021 BackgroundLung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Clinical staging of lung cancer plays a crucial role in making treatment decisions and evaluating prognosis.
Danqing Hu +5 more
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Mediastinal Staging for Lung Cancer [PDF]
Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2014 Staging of the mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes plays a crucial role in identifying the best treatment option for patients with confirmed or suspected lung cancer and, in many cases, can simultaneously confirm a diagnosis of cancer.
Jacob Gelberg +2 more
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Long-term Survival of Personalized Surgical Treatment of Locally Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Based on Molecular Staging [PDF]
Chinese Journal of Lung Cancer, 2011 Background and objective Approximately 35%-40% of patients with newly diagnosed non-small cell Lung cancer have locally advanced disease. The average survival time of these patients only have 6-8 months with chemotherapy.
Qinghua ZHOU +16 more
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Beyond traditional staging system: Tumor-Node-Metastasis-Blood staging system improves treatment decisions and prognostic stratification in cancer patients [PDF]
Frontiers in OncologyBackgroundThe traditional Tumor-Node-Metastasis (TNM) staging system for solid tumors relies on anatomical assessment but possesses inherent limitations in capturing systemic micrometastases and molecular-level disease burden.
Yue Li, Yuanyuan Zhan, Cheng Shen
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Clinical Versus Pathologic Staging in Early‐Stage Non‐Small Cell Lung Cancer Assessed by an Established Lung Cancer Multidisciplinary Meeting [PDF]
Thoracic CancerIntroduction Accurate clinical staging of early‐stage non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is critical to guide treatment recommendations. Clinical and pathological staging concordance for NSCLC is a quality indicator of lung cancer care.
James Nolan +3 more
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Bronchoscopic staging of lung cancer
Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, 2013 Advances in bronchoscopy have contributed valuable tools to the diagnosis and staging of lung cancer. Detection of lesions at the premalignant microscopic stage has become possible with autofluorescence bronchoscopy and narrow band imaging.
Waël C. Hanna, Kazuhiro Yasufuku
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Evaluating large language models for automated TNM staging from PET-CT reports: a multi-cancer comparative study [PDF]
Frontiers in Digital HealthPurposeTo evaluate three large language models (LLMs), including ChatGPT 5, ChatGPT 4o, and ChatGPT 3.5, in automating TNM staging from PET-CT reports across six cancer types, and to assess their clinical utility compared with junior radiologists ...
Wen Xu +5 more
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Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration for lung cancer staging: early experience in Brazil, [PDF]
Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, 2015 Objective: Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is a minimally invasive, safe and accurate method for collecting samples from mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes.
Viviane Rossi Figueiredo +8 more
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Role of integrated F-18 fluoro-deoxy-glucose positron emission tomography and computed tomography in evaluation of lung cancer [PDF]
Archive of Oncology, 2012 Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world. It is generally divided in two groups: non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small cell lung cancer (SCLC).
Šobić-Šaranović Dragana
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