Surgical strategy of non-small cell lung cancer with Ⅲa staging / 国际肿瘤学杂志

ABSTRACT

Patients with Ⅲa staging have a large proportion in non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC). These patients often lost the opportunity to complete excision of the tumor because the tumor have invaded adja-cent vital organs when diagnosed. Besides,Ⅲa staging contains a lot of complicated clinical TNM stages,so, the opinions of experts at home and abroad are various about treatment of NSCLC with Ⅲa staging. Neoadjuvant therapy, surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy play important roles under different conditions. Especially surgery is occupying a pivotal position in comprehensive therapy of Ⅲa NSCLC.