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Do you electively treat the ipsilateral hilum in patients with peripheral limited stage small cell lung cancer who have negative pathological sampling of mediastinal and hilar nodes by EBUS and no FDG-avid nodes on PET?

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Radiation Oncology · Cleveland Clinic

These patients by your description essentially have stage I SCLC. They may be candidates for lobectomy followed by adjuvant chemo (or chemo followed by lobectomy, if surgical candidates).

Similarly while there are a range of acceptable approaches to these patients if they are not/marginal surgical ca...

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