Advances of pathological diagnosis of lung cancer based on clinical needs / 中华病理学杂志

ABSTRACT

Pathological diagnosis of lung cancer keep updating and developing, in order to meet the clinical needs in the era of precision medicine. It mainly involves the advances of histological subtype classification, molecular testing for targeted therapy, biomarkers detection for immunotherapy and the pathological evaluation for neoadjuvant therapy. Nowadays, pathological diagnosis of lung cancer present a multidisciplinary model including clinical medicine, radiology and pathology. It is gradually moving towards standardization with expection to provide better guidance for clinical treatment and prognosis.