Pulmonology

Non-small cell lung cancer

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How are you approaching patients with early-stage NSCLC who progress on neoadjuvant chemo-immunotherapy and are no longer surgical candidates?

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How does the presence of interstitial lung disease affect your decision to offer SBRT for early stage NSCLC?

Specifically in O2-dependent patients? Have any dose/fractionation regimens been shown to reduce the risk of pneumonitis in this population?

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How do you define an adequate EBUS when staging NSCLC?

Is there a minimum standard for which stations to sample? Does lymph node size affect your recommendations?

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For NSCLC patients with limited diagnostic tissue that is insufficient for genetic testing, do you offer repeat biopsy (of accessible site), blood based testing, or both to evaluate for actionable driver mutations?

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What is the role for "liquid biopsy" for patients with newly diagnosed metastatic NSCLC?

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Do you do recommend further mediastinal staging for patients with SCLC or inoperable NSCLC with N1 disease on PET?

If a patient clearly has N1 disease with high SUV on PET, do you routinely recommend EBUS or mediastinoscopy to evaluate for N2 disease?

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What are best practices for engaging with multidisciplinary colleagues to ensure patients with earlier stage NSCLC are being appropriately considered for novel adjuvant therapies?

How are your teams effectively evaluating and counseling patients to ensure they are prepared for potential extended adjuvant treatment approaches? Is...

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How do you approach elderly patients with stage III NSCLC who have a reasonable performance status?

Do you recommend or make any modifications in the PACIFIC regimen for patients > 75 years of age?

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How important is a severely diminished diffusion capacity in determining whether to offer a lung cancer patient radiotherapy?

Does it factor into your decision making in the setting of restricted spirometry and normal lung volumes? Does this differ for SBRT v. chemoRT?

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Papers discussed in this category

Clin Lung Cancer, 2017 Jul 10

Impact of Pretreatment Interstitial Lung Disease on Radiation Pneumonitis and Survival in Patients Treated With Lung Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT).

J Thorac Oncol,

Impact of pretreatment interstitial lung disease on radiation pneumonitis and survival after stereotactic body radiation therapy for lung cancer.

Clinical lung cancer, 2018-07

Fatal Radiation Pneumonitis in Patients With Subclinical Interstitial Lung Disease.

Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys., 2017 Mar 15

Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, 2016-06

Pre-treatment non-target lung FDG-PET uptake predicts symptomatic radiation pneumonitis following Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy (SABR).

Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR, 2021 Mar 31

Effectiveness of Thermal Ablation and Stereotactic Radiotherapy Based on Stage I Lung Cancer Histology.

Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys., 2010-06-01

Selective nodal irradiation on basis of (18)FDG-PET scans in limited-disease small-cell lung cancer: a prospective study.

Thorac Cancer, 2017 Apr 24

Relationship between endobronchial ultrasound-guided (EBUS)-transbronchial needle aspiration utility and computed tomography staging, node size at EBUS, and positron emission tomography scan node standard uptake values: A retrospective analysis.

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2013-03-01

Poor baseline pulmonary function may not increase the risk of radiation-induced lung toxicity.

Respir. Res., 2018 Apr 24

Abnormal pulmonary function tests predict the development of radiation-induced pneumonitis in advanced non-small cell lung Cancer.

N Engl J Med, 2017 Nov 16

Durvalumab after Chemoradiotherapy in Stage III Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer.

Chest, 2016-03

Technical Aspects of Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report.

Chest, 2008 Feb 08

Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration of lymph nodes in the radiologically and positron emission tomography-normal mediastinum in patients with lung cancer.

JAMA, 2010 Nov 24

Mediastinoscopy vs endosonography for mediastinal nodal staging of lung cancer: a randomized trial.

N Engl J Med, 2022 Apr 11

Neoadjuvant Nivolumab plus Chemotherapy in Resectable Lung Cancer.

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