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How do you counsel patients in regards to the options and risks for salvage lobectomy/wedge after SBRT?
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Thoracic Surgery · Yale School of Medicine
For early stage lung cancer, we discuss with our patients the surgical and nonsurgical options, and provide the rationale for our recommendation. A common question is whether the patient can have surgery if the SBRT doesn't work. I think SBRT patients need to know two things relating to this questio...