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Summary of Key Points Chest Wall: Invasion of parietal pleura and chest wall indicates T3; involvement of vertebral body indicates T4 chest wall tumor. Extensive resection required. Long-term survival possible postresection if: No distant metastases No mediastinal lymph node involvement…

In 2010, the most recent year for which numbers are available, there were 201,144 new cases of lung cancer (107,164 men and 93,984 women) in the United States. With 158,248 deaths, lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths…