Preoperative Staging May Reduce Lung Cancer Surgeries

Preoperative Staging May Reduce Lung Cancer Surgeries
Combined PET-CT staging may reduce the number of total and futile thoracotomies

WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- In patients with non-small cell lung cancer, preoperative staging with combined positron-emission tomography and computed tomography (PET-CT) is associated with reductions in total and futile thoracotomies and has no effect on overall mortality, according to a study published in the July 2 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

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