A novel preoperative staging technique for NSCLC could prevent unnecessary surgery
Alexandra King
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A high proportion of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) undergo unnecessary thoracotomies because of the limited accuracy of current preoperative staging techniques. A recent prospective, nonrandomized trial conducted by a research group from The Netherlands aimed to address this issue by comparing the novel technique of transesophageal ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) with mediastinoscopy for preoperative staging of NSCLC. The analysis, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is probably the first study to prospectively compare the two techniques and also the first to validate the results of EUS-FNA with findings of surgical pathology.
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