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Ann Thorac Surg 2005;79:979
© 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

INVITED COMMENTARY

Nasser Altorki, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 525 East 68th St, New York, NY 10021

(E-mail: nkaltork@med.cornell.edu).

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The importance of clinical staging for malignant disease cannot be overstated. Accurate clinical staging is a necessary prerequisite for treatment planning, prognostication, and for the rational design of clinical trials. The designation of a cTNM stage should incorporate all the information derived before thoracotomy from clinical evaluation, various imaging modalities, and invasive staging procedures such as mediastinoscopy. Ideally, clinical staging modalities should result in a cTNM stage that is highly predictive of the final pathologic stage as determined by pathologic examination . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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