Keywords: Diagnosis; lung cancer; mind mapping; molecular; staging Summary of Key Points Mind maps are used as a tool to illustrate the principles involved in the diagnostic evaluation of a patient with known or suspected lung cancer. Addressed are factors…
Summary of Key Points Health services research aims to improve the outcomes to treatment for lung cancer by optimizing the accessibility, quality, and efficiency of treatment programs. Achieving optimal outcomes for patients with lung cancer requires that every patient should…
Summary of Key Points † Deceased. To describe the functions of advocacy. To describe how lung cancer advocacy groups accomplish their goals. To describe how they can influence lung cancer outcomes. Advocacy is defined as the act or process of…
Summary of Key Points Despite two decades of progress, the prognosis for patients with lung cancer remains poor. Therefore forming new hypotheses and conducting clinical trials to investigate this patient population are still important. Accordingly, in the past 25 years,…
Summary of Key Points Lung cancer is increasingly understood at the molecular level; N-of-1 trials are becoming more relevant with the use of biomarker assessment and targeted therapies. The failure of promising agents in randomized studies has prompted reconsideration of…
Summary of Key Points The best palliative outcomes are obtained when palliative care is involved early in advanced lung cancer. Integration of palliative care early in the advanced cancer patient has important health utilization and economic outcomes besides patient-related outcomes.…
Summary of Key Points The main oncologic emergencies most germane and specific to lung cancer are central airway obstruction, massive hemoptysis, and massive pleural effusion. Central airway obstruction due to lung cancer is traditionally classified as exophytic (intraluminal tumor), extrinsic…
Summary of Key Points Thymic tumors are rare malignancies and represent a wide array of tumors. Histologic classification distinguishes three separate entities: thymomas, thymic carcinomas, and neuroendocrine thymic tumors. Thymomas are characterized by variability in histologic appearance as well as…
Summary of Key Points Neuroendocrine cancers of the lung share some fundamental pathology features but span a broad range of clinical behaviors. The clinical behavior varies with the degree of differentiation: typical carcinoids are more indolent and localized, atypical carcinoids…
Summary of Key Points Knowledge of the anatomy of the mediastinum is critical to establishing the differential diagnosis and choosing the best diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. A wide variety of possible etiologies must be considered including solid and lymphatic malignancies,…